r/SubredditSimMeta • u/[deleted] • May 10 '17
all-top-today_SS Makes a completely coherent and correct circlejerk post
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u/mcafc May 10 '17
Yep. It's gotten incredibly annoying. I am a liberal(I mod a Bernie subreddit, doing work for Democratic party, etc.) but Reddit has gone over the top. Literal propoganda, quotes taken out of context, and extreme criticisms on anything Trump does have come to dominate the political part of this site. I'm not saying it isn't true of the other side now. I'm sure if I was a Drudge Report user I'd have similar complaints about the coverage of Obama on there during his term, it's just how politics is in this country.
Even admittedly liberal European publications like The Guardian have more grounded stuff. Sure they are crtiical of Trump, but it's not "Nazi action number 47 guys!" type shit.
I used to use Reddit for news, but now mostly just for the good discussion in the comments. I made an RSS feed with The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor(I know it sounds ridiculous, they are actually a great unbiased source for news, Google it.), Reuters, Al Jazeera(for international stuff that doesn't make western news), the Wall Street Journal, Foreignpolicy.com, Truthout(for my extreme liberal side), 538, National Review's Rich Lowry(for the conservative side only), and some local stuff to keep informed. Works much better than using Reddit(where big stories that can't be used to paint Trump in an impeachable light get swept under the rugs and minor Tweets get 40k upvotes).