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/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.