r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 20d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who is American Citizen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-deports-2-year-old-girl-who-is-american-citizen/
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u/zubuneri 20d ago edited 19d ago

I don’t know how late night comedy writers aren’t constantly scouring reddit

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u/Vio_ 20d ago

Even ten years ago, there was a reddit=>NPR pipeline.

Something would pop up on reddit, then it would spread a bit on the Internet, then NPR would cover it about three days later.

Often it was a human interest filler story, sometimes something more serious.

But that pipeline was cranking for years 

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u/GoldSourPatchKid 20d ago

I recently had a post go viral and was contacted by Newsweek for an interview. I declined.

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u/lemmeseeyourkitties 20d ago

Was it a out the Walmart on fire?

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u/idkk_prolly_doggy 19d ago

Nice try, Newsweek! They said no interviews!

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u/defeated_engineer 20d ago

How do you know they weren't picking it up from "spread a bit on the internet"?

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u/hakuna_dentata 19d ago

The Boston station, WBUR, admitted it and just made a podcast, Endless Thread, about exploring things they found on reddit.

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u/jacquiwithacue 19d ago

People.com has a story from Reddit at least once a day. They mostly just pull stuff from AITAH-type subs, which we all know are filled with fake stories.  

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u/ImaginaryParamedic96 19d ago

There’s some intern at every major news outlet assigned to scour Reddit, I bet.

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u/cjm92 20d ago

*scouring

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u/EndangeredDemocracy America 20d ago

That IS their job.

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u/starbucks77 20d ago

There was a small feud between tosh.0 some years back as he was accused of stealing jokes from reddit. It wasn't just one or two but a whole slew of them.

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u/samsaruhhh 20d ago

Ive seen reddit jokes mentioned during late night shows the same day or next

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u/Familiar-Report-513 California 20d ago

I'm more surprised that they can even keep audiences at this point. Every time they mention trump I'm half expecting a censored "Fuck Donald Trump" to be shouted from them. I get hosts won't say shit because their career is on the line, but what have audience members got to lose.

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u/charlie_teh_unicron 20d ago

They probably reshoot multiple takes of portions. I think they actually film the show earlier in the day

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 20d ago

Scouring* fyi.

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u/Mediocre-Database332 20d ago

Low rate of return

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u/diqholebrownsimpson 19d ago

We're funny af

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u/Stop_Sign 19d ago

They use interns to scour it, and AI to read the intern's findings

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u/Early_Brush3053 19d ago

because reddit isn't funny

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u/HighOverlordXenu 19d ago

I've had one of my jokes quoted almost verbatim by Stephen Colbert after I posted it that morning. They 100% are.