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Let's not forget that standard media diet includes Fox News and One America Network (which has ~15% the viewer count of Fox News). Old media isn't necessarily g

by rtpg 9y ago

Let's not forget that standard media diet includes Fox News and One America Network (which has ~15% the viewer count of Fox News). Old media isn't necessarily great at filtering out nonsense. Though I agree that the newsfeed tends to put these things next to the NYT or the Guardian, I feel like "page rank"-y stuff could help smooth this out. I've already seen improvements to my FB newsfeed for this kind of stuff over the yearse.

headmelted 9y ago
As a longtime Guardian reader, I'd be careful about implicitly declaring the Guardian as any more "legitimate" than anyone else. Can't speak on the topic of NYT, but at least in the case of the Guardian, it's clearly lowered its standards over the last several years to find a market. (I still read it, but it's slowly becoming a left-wing Daily Mail cough Owen Jones cough, which is really disappointing).
- drizzt396 9y ago
  That recent article about the rebellious self-owned Greek factory was case in point. Great story, but the journalism was lacking significantly.
- BigJono 9y ago
  Yep, I read the Guardian's Australian edition every now and then and some of their stuff is absolute rubbish. I'd love to know what the go-to center-left news source is over here. So far I haven't found it...
  - abakker 9y ago
    bloomberg.com, I think. Many of their articles border on totally apolitical. edit to add: their core business isn't actually selling ads on news articles, which also helps quite a bit.
    - headmelted 9y ago
      That's quite interesting to me. I was always under the impression that Bloomberg was the non-WWE version of CNBC (i.e. primarily markets news, without Cramer's hysterics). Will have to check it out again if its got broader coverage than I realized. Thanks for the tip!
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indy 9y ago
Echoing some of the other replies to your comment, The Guardian has really gone down in its quality of journalism.

by rtpg 9y ago

headmelted 9y ago

As a longtime Guardian reader, I'd be careful about implicitly declaring the Guardian as any more "legitimate" than anyone else. Can't speak on the topic of NYT, but at least in the case of the Guardian, it's clearly lowered its standards over the last several years to find a market. (I still read it, but it's slowly becoming a left-wing Daily Mail cough Owen Jones cough, which is really disappointing).

drizzt396 9y ago
That recent article about the rebellious self-owned Greek factory was case in point. Great story, but the journalism was lacking significantly.
BigJono 9y ago
Yep, I read the Guardian's Australian edition every now and then and some of their stuff is absolute rubbish. I'd love to know what the go-to center-left news source is over here. So far I haven't found it...
- abakker 9y ago
  bloomberg.com, I think. Many of their articles border on totally apolitical. edit to add: their core business isn't actually selling ads on news articles, which also helps quite a bit.
  - headmelted 9y ago
    That's quite interesting to me. I was always under the impression that Bloomberg was the non-WWE version of CNBC (i.e. primarily markets news, without Cramer's hysterics). Will have to check it out again if its got broader coverage than I realized. Thanks for the tip!
    - Arlene90 9y ago
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indy 9y ago

Echoing some of the other replies to your comment, The Guardian has really gone down in its quality of journalism.