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It's 2017, dont't expect tabloid "journalists" to have integrity. Gotta drive thoses clicks.

• baby 9y ago
  For more than a decade I've refused to read the newspaper or their web equivalent and haven't watched an once of TV news. I usually just get wind of the big lines via reddit or hackernews, and almost never read the article but read the comments instead. I honestly do not know if this is a good way to get my news, but at least I'm not getting depressed daily, or being lied to by one journalist. I only get the important information, and I get to see different educated and community-sorted points of view on the subject.
  • 0xcoffee 9y ago
    I do this a lot too, but I noticed that often comments (on reddit especially) get it wrong a lot of the time too. I used to go straight to the comments, and there would always be some highly up-voted post countering the article, by someone claiming to work/have knowledge of the field, and I would usually believe that more then the article. However then when a topic comes round which I do have actual knowledge on, I notice that often the article gets it wrong, and the counter-comments get it equally wrong. Nowadays I try to make myself read the article before going to the comments, and take the counter-points also with a huge grain of salt. I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated.
    • baby 9y ago
      > I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated. And there as well, knowledgeable people don't always agree on things :)
• OJFord 9y ago
  > dont't expect tabloid "journalists" to have integrity The Telegraph isn't a tabloid. Also, while it was a shitty article, I wouldn't go so far as to call it one of the "festering sphincters of bad journalism" as submission author does...