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And how do you verify news? By going out and verifying everything personally? If not, you have to trust someone. I'd rather trust the NYT than Breitbart, becaus
by tormeh 10y ago
And how do you verify news? By going out and verifying everything personally? If not, you have to trust someone. I'd rather trust the NYT than Breitbart, because I care about veracity, not because of an allegiance to the NYT. And also because the NYT cares more about the things I care about, but that's an independent factor.
- pas 10y agoI just addressed this in an other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038215 tl;dr - I agree with you. NYT has some street cred, Breitbart has negative of that, that's why people should require more evidence for Breitbart's claims than for NYT's, and yes, we should take bias into account, but that's different, sort of orthogonal effect.