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I didn't mean to comment on the honesty or otherwise, those were just the paragraphs that contained the key info: PR firms feed valid facts to journalists. If
by theoh 10y ago
I didn't mean to comment on the honesty or otherwise, those were just the paragraphs that contained the key info: PR firms feed valid facts to journalists.
If a news outlet so much as carries an article about a given topic, they are exercising discretion and leaving themselves open to accusations of bias... Really it's NPoV that is the unachievable ideal.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoI see, you did seem to imply that I implied that NYT/Pearl (pg favors the former when it comes to possible "bad actors") were being dishonest. I think it's an important lesson to learn how to discern whether articles are "paid marketing" or "content marketing" (or biased in other ways). Not many people know how to do this kind of critical thinking -- look at the "fake news" debacle (if anything, there is a certain blind trust people place in authority figures like the NYT). The transparency (or lack thereof) of this particular article is an important observation to note.