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There's a dual effect: If you find a news source that consistently gets things inside your field of expertise right, then that's a data point suggesting that th
by skrebbel 8y ago
There's a dual effect: If you find a news source that consistently gets things inside your field of expertise right, then that's a data point suggesting that they might be right about other fields as well.
Not necessarily of course: eg Dutch news broadcaster NOS got significantly better tech reporting after hiring a particularly good journalist (Joost Schellevis), but their other reporting didn't suddenly get less biased by him joining.
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- gowld 8y agoThat's plausible if the new news source is *general interest and is good in your arbitrary (form their perspective) area of expertise. But it's bad advice if the editor of your favorite automotive maintenance journal pens an article about biology or international relations.