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Photo agencies are refusing to publish a portrait of Kate Middleton with her children over concerns it was manipulated
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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But a really weird one, right?
Like you wouldn't expect a tabloid to have a bunch of financial news and you wouldn't expect a financial news source to have a bunch of tabloid stuff.
They're a big company. They must have market research people. So what is the demographic they've found that makes this make sense?
BI has been doing tabloid-level journalism for a long time now, this doesn't seem out of character for them at all. I'm sure their market research is entirely focused on maximizing engagement workout any concern about their reputation.
SO weird. You make a very good point… is there some tabloid reader/business person overlap somewhere? Like, a huge one that’s invisible to normal people?
My guess would be to launder otherwise unpalatable, right wing, conspiracy bullshit. Pretty clever. Financial news is usually pretty straightforward and somewhat predictable. If it's on here, then maybe it's not so outrageous, right?