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I guess a good option is to pick "reference topics" as measuring sticks. Read about something you are intimately familiar with. If the reporting matches your ex
by close04 8y ago
I guess a good option is to pick "reference topics" as measuring sticks. Read about something you are intimately familiar with. If the reporting matches your experience you can assume it's relatively unbiased. If there's a strong mismatch you can assume it will be present when covering topics you are not familiar with and cannot judge correctly.
- peteretep 8y agoThis doesn't sound like how newspapers work. Take a state propaganda outlet like RT.com. They have plenty of stories on topics I know about that are just fine.
- close04 8y agoIt's not necessarily applicable at anything above journalist level. Different journalists have different biases. And their biases might be overridden by their superiors when they get hired by another media outlet, with different "sponsors". But unless you plan on being an expert in every field or just distrusting about everything you read (safe option if you ask me), such a measuring stick is better than nothing.
- rusk 8y ago> I guess a good option is to pick "reference topics" as measuring sticks For me this is the beauty of HN. I have a good familiarity with a lot of the topics discussed so I can generally tell who knows what they're talking about and who isn't. When the discussion veers into more general topics I can feel mostly confident (relatively speaking anyway) of the information I'm getting that's "on the level".