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> It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news". Given the state of conventional news, can you blame them? Foxnews is j
by qubax 8y ago
> It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news".
Given the state of conventional news, can you blame them? Foxnews is just a republican party news organization. And everything else ( CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYTimes, NPR, etc ) are a democratic party news organization.
It is sad that news has become so political and none of it is reliable. It's just one political side lying, exaggerating, clickbaiting and hating the other political side. It's a political/news war and the first casualty of any war is the truth.
Maybe it was always this way and I was just too young and naive to notice.
> Are they sure? I bet it's just one big echo chamber of people copy/pasting each other, just like every trend on social media (memes, etc).
As long as they don't censor, it won't be an echo chamber. Social media only becomes an echo chamber when the company takes sides. Sadly, google, twitter, reddit, facebook, etc are being forced to take sides with disastrous results. It doesn't help that formerly trusted organizations like the SPLC and ADL have turned extremely biased and unreliable.
The worst part is that news companies are at the forefront of pushing for censoring on the internet. Which creates more echo chambers, which creates more divisions. But I suppose that is good for ratings and that's all that matters to news companies. Not truth, not objectivity. Just ratings.
Given how toxic news media has gotten, it's better than teens stay away from it entirely. How many adults go insane watching CNN, MSNBC or Foxnews? Too many. The news industry has only itself to blame for it's predicament. Nobody trust news for a reason.