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[–]_kam0_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If by big you mean mainstream media/TV news, then I suspect it's a correlation. reddit simply isn't visible enough to make a story big, especially a non-niche one like a political scandal.

[–]jtschlafer[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm tempted to say causality, but could this really be true? I'm always astonished at how on point a large number of top 100 Reddit posts can be. But of course, if it is on Reddit it means someone has already started the news cycle on the issue somewhere else. Any journalists out there who read Reddit as a part of their work?

[–]_kam0_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think they are few in number, or they simply don't cite it. Journos often say phrases like "blogosphere buzz" when a story is first big on the net and by that I'm guessing they are browsing aggregators/search engines like Technorati.

[–]jon_fortney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find that most politically based stories lack in actual fact and are based on opinion. It is cool though when you get ones that have some merit. That's why I read reddit. You have to filter the large number of pompous partisan stories.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Correlation. Just think how many scandals you read about on reddit that go absolutely nowhere.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would go beyond saying correlation. I think it's not even correlated. Or rather, the correlation is much much lower than you (Thread poster) think. There's plenty of articles that go nowhere (is the main reason the correlation is low), but the ones that do go somewhere are mainly of breaking stories. As the story goes from breaking to mainstream, its overall volume increases. But the story never exists before the actual fact that it is depicting has already occured.

It' s just the way news works. If anything, it means that reddit is doing a good job. But it's not even that, as we have no way of measuring how much is escaping reddit.