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The cynical among us have been saying that nothing presented by the White house (and any other government institutions) can be trusted at face value for years.
by soft_dev_person 10y ago
The cynical among us have been saying that nothing presented by the White house (and any other government institutions) can be trusted at face value for years. I guess now is the time where everyone becomes a cynic.
But is that such a bad thing?
They say access journalism is dead, but access journalism is just repeating stuff said by people with power. Making them accountable is a good thing.
Trump may have unintentionally restored investigative journalism...
- joeguilmette 10y ago>> Trump may have unintentionally restored investigative journalism... This can happen if they can find a way to monetize text that costs 100x more to produce and has 100x less engagement than clickbait.
- halomru 10y agoIf there's 10000 times less competition in investigative journalism than in clickbaiting those numbers add up to being profitable
- marcosdumay 10y agoMaybe people will actually pay for something that isn't trash. (Or, maybe not, who knows.)
- ff10 10y ago> I guess now is the time where everyone becomes a cynic. For a transition of normative systems it seems that it is required that at some point people "don't believe in anything" anymore.
- okket 10y ago> But is that such a bad thing? Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
- soft_dev_person 10y agoYour point may be valid, but I think the current (up until very recently, anyway) situation is just as bad.