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Comment by alricb

9 years ago

It's a fine line. Newspapers were always partly entertainment; their goal is to get read so they can sell advertisement. You wouldn't have crosswords and comics and the NYT style section otherwise. A bit of infotainment is okay, when done in an ethical manner, as I think is the case here; Voltaire and Karl Kraus were doing something similar.

Now, when it verges on disinformation, like Geraldo or the NYT style section and their silly trend articles...