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> While I think The Intercept is the most important news organization and overall a profoundly beneficial force in the world The rest of your post makes me tot

by ng12 10y ago

> While I think The Intercept is the most important news organization and overall a profoundly beneficial force in the world The rest of your post makes me totally disagree with this sentiment. If they fail to meet the most basic litmus test for impartiality I don't see how they're any more important than any other news organization. EDIT: I really, really hope you're not referring to the Hogan case as "brave disregard of certain unfortunate laws".

grandalf 10y ago
It's a new trend, and to date the reporting has been so strong that it will take more than a few Thiel stories to tip the balance. I'm hoping they come to their senses. They've been doing a lot of "in group" focused stories, which are very annoying. I think most rational readers don't want in-group stories they want solid reporting and clear analysis. Sure, most people who want to read Greenwald's reporting about the surveillance state also don't mind reading a story implicating Thiel in the overreach, but that doesn't mean they ought to stoop to the level of calling out Tiel and not calling out the A list investors, established larger firms, and government officials who are all part of the reason we should all be concerned about the likely misuse of Palantir's (and a lot of other) tech. To be fair, The Intercept does great investigative journalism, but as a whole does not position itself as a completely objective source. There are a fair number of "awareness" oriented stories published, and even a few rants. Rants can be very informative but it's important to differentiate them from what is supposed to be unbiased/objective news or analysis. Sadly, clickbait-oriented metrics likely suggest to the editors of all news-ish publications that the in-group stories are what readers demand.

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> While I think The Intercept is the most important news organization and overall a profoundly beneficial force in the world The rest of your post makes me tot

by ng12 10y ago

grandalf 10y ago
It's a new trend, and to date the reporting has been so strong that it will take more than a few Thiel stories to tip the balance. I'm hoping they come to their senses. They've been doing a lot of "in group" focused stories, which are very annoying. I think most rational readers don't want in-group stories they want solid reporting and clear analysis. Sure, most people who want to read Greenwald's reporting about the surveillance state also don't mind reading a story implicating Thiel in the overreach, but that doesn't mean they ought to stoop to the level of calling out Tiel and not calling out the A list investors, established larger firms, and government officials who are all part of the reason we should all be concerned about the likely misuse of Palantir's (and a lot of other) tech. To be fair, The Intercept does great investigative journalism, but as a whole does not position itself as a completely objective source. There are a fair number of "awareness" oriented stories published, and even a few rants. Rants can be very informative but it's important to differentiate them from what is supposed to be unbiased/objective news or analysis. Sadly, clickbait-oriented metrics likely suggest to the editors of all news-ish publications that the in-group stories are what readers demand.