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2016 Postmortem

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts) Fri Jan 6, 2017, 09:57 PM Jan 2017

Why is hacked material so much more exciting to Americans than investigative journalism? [View all]

I saw this both on the left and the right this cycle, where Podesta and DNC emails were shared so heavily on twitter, whereas good investigative journalism from wapo, nytimes etc were completely ignored.

Why is that?

I have some personal hypotheses about it, but was wondering if you guys had any.

I'm in India with limited access so may not be able to respond until later.

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Why is hacked material so much more exciting to Americans than investigative journalism? [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 OP

Because they are stupid is the short answer triron Jan 2017 #1

They love the seediness of it all. democratisphere Jan 2017 #2

Excellent question EffieBlack Jan 2017 #3

Best question and I've seen so many slink away not answering ... bettyellen Jan 2017 #4

Because the Russian Cyber spies was spreading the email information in a coordinated manner UCmeNdc Jan 2017 #5

yeah those Republicans sure spammed stolen files everywhere, like they didn't care it was stolen. Sunlei Jan 2017 #8

Probably the same kind of people who get upset when science doesn't answer EVERYTHING. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #6

because it's hell on eyes to read more than headlines on a bitty cellphone. Sunlei Jan 2017 #7

Because the NYT & WAPO are considered just as biased Lurks Often Jan 2017 #9

Especially when the hacked emails don't really have much content of interest frazzled Jan 2017 #10

A greater sense of involvement? MyshkinCommaPrince Jan 2017 #11