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Can someone explain a couple Breaking News Non-MSM rules to me, please?

Zyphlin said:
Ah. So if I'm reading you right, the whole of the confusion is that in the short hand description of the section found on the main page, it notes that "journals" are one example of an alternative news source.

First time I've heard any issue or confusion on that matter, but we can definitely take a look at the description and perhaps clean it up to more accurately correspond with what the actual more detailed rules are stating.
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Correct. I read a fair bit of journals; and, in general, I concur with your remarks in post #24. (I certainly have no interest in here having a definitional discussion about the nature of news.) TY for taking the time to post that, but it's the incongruity between the nature of journal content and news content, combined with reading that "the powers that be" chose, presumably willfully and with due thought, to include journals in the description of BN-Non-MSN content

I am new here, so I've not yet gleaned the prevailing referencing style/source-types of members here. I can offer only that I tend more often to write my own editorial/thread rubric wherein I directly cite original research studies, reports, and research, but not so much news articles, that I've read. I less often write a "tweet" and cite a news source's distillate remarks about an original research study, report, etc., at least when I'm responding/commenting with a measure of sincerity on a topic I understand well.

Of course, I don't always cite research studies and similar content:
 
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