Deez are my ~election confessions~
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Usually, traditional media’s forays into hip millennial platforms are about as successful as Jeb! Bush’s tweets, but NBC News is actually doing something super cool on Tumblr: yesterday, the outlet launched “Election Confessions,” a PostSecret-style page where you can anonymously share what you ~really~ think about Shitshow election 2016.
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This one, scarily so, is my fave. What’s yours?
NiemanLab highlighted this along with a few related crowdsourcing projects, like CNN’s “Love Story” and The Washington Post’s “When I Was Pulled Over.” IMO, these experiments are a good way to inject personality + much needed realness into the daily news grind, plus they tap right into our collective, beautiful, oversharing core:
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