My main beef with Meridian is that they've taken LDS values and both politicized and commercialized them. Â Instead of merely reporting LDS news, or having articles that may interest LDS people, they try to sell you something (whether it's a product or a philosophy) by tugging at your religious heart strings.
For example, instead of promoting a board game by saying it'd be fun for family home evening, Meridian would say that it 'strengthens the family'. Â By using those kinds of Mormon buzzwords, they're selling to your testimony rather than your consumer needs. Â (I'm sure there are better examples, but that's the one that's stuck in my head right now...)
Also, I dislike how they present themselves as an LDS news outlet, and then, amongst stories about temples in Nigeria and memoriams to apostles' dead spouses, they insert articles about alternative medicine, homeschooling, and Libertarianism. Â I'm not saying that there's anything necessarily wrong with any of these things, but I do think that Meridian indirectly presents them as "these things are what good Mormons do/believe".
Anyway,
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