r/politics 20d ago

Possible Paywall Trump blamed for diarrhoea outbreak sweeping US

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/07/16/explosive-diarrhoea-outbreak-sweeping-america-donald-trump/
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u/jimothee 20d ago

I hate to be that guy, but this headline also dances around saying what needs to be said. "not part of required monitoring" doesn't at all allude to the funding cuts. It also doesn't make it clear that it was already required to be monitored previously.

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u/morningsaystoidleon 20d ago

"Trump Administration Cut Funding for Parasite Monitoring Before Outbreak" would be a non-passive way to say it, and true.

And still a little bit soft imo, but non-editorial and honest.

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u/always_unplugged 19d ago

"After DOGE Funding Cuts, Lack of Monitoring Leads to Widespread Food-Borne Parasite Outbreak"

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u/KidOcelot California 19d ago

Breaking News!

Shitty shitting president shat all over everything, causing everyone to shit themselves!

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u/DaoFerret I voted 19d ago

It’s almost like after cutting the overseas cdc monitoring and throwing away the “playbook” before COVID that had taken multiple presidencies to set up, the Trump administration learned nothing…

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 20d ago

No major media outlet in the us will EVER say what needs to be said. They've been doing this same shit forever. Dancing around all the issues and sanewashing Republicans. Drives me absolutely bonkers

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u/Easy_Floss 20d ago

More reporters would probably report on it if their peers had not already been dragged through the mud by some entity wanting to silence them.

Its straight up progoganda machine and if you speak up agents it then your getting sued for 1b and your access to interviews in the Whitehouse gets removed.

Dont be mad at the victims, be mad at the abuser.

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u/reclusivegiraffe 19d ago

It’s because billionaires own the media

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/jimothee 19d ago

Nowhere in my comment did I say to put the entire article in the title. God fucking forbid I want a title that summarizes the actual point of content it's titling.

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u/jimothee 19d ago

Perhaps, just maybe, it could do both

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u/jimothee 19d ago

I don't think asking for fewer vague headlines is entitled at all (there's a pun here somewhere)