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Intentionally or unintentionally, they have to go. All media is suspect without sources, secret sources, sources that won't go on record, and all the rest with
by AckSyn 10y ago
Intentionally or unintentionally, they have to go. All media is suspect without sources, secret sources, sources that won't go on record, and all the rest without proof of what they're saying.
Else we're no better than school yard gossip.
- meri_dian 10y agoSo you want to ban all opinion and editorial pieces? Articles based on facts very often speculate and riff on ideas, branching off of initial facts, to reach conclusions. Who decides what is appropriate speculation and what is not?
- AckSyn 10y ago"Appropriate speculation" isn't spouting off about a pet agenda a particular news outlet has or shoehorning it into whatever #popularbullshit is trending, it's about a logical conclusion to new information. Opinion pieces take that and twist it to their own bias and quite often into an inflammatory way. Too many outlets use opinion pieces as fact and engage in public outraging by selecting the most controversial, inflammatory, or biased stories and opinions to get viewership. Hell, you don't have to look far for them claiming not to be news but "Entertainment News" and frankly, it's insulting. News used to have standards. Unfortunately it scrapes the bottom of the barrel.