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Both, but the media is more "agile" on their morals. The more I see the more I think many if not most reporters/journalists/media people are sociopaths. defini

• malvosenior 8y ago
  I think we can thank Twitter for exposing this. When you can go to a journalist's twitter page and see their actual thoughts directly (opposed to heavily edited and curated through their media property), you can get a better sense of who they are. What I found is that there's an enormous amount of group think and yes, sociopathic tendencies among journalists. They also tend to tweet a lot, like 30-40 times a day. Ironically the archetypal example of this is Sarah Jeong and the New York Times. That they would publish this article about bias in their readership, while being obviously biased themselves pretty much sums up that whole sociopath thing...
  • SolaceQuantum 8y ago
    That they would publish this article about bias in their readership, while being obviously biased themselves pretty much sums up that whole sociopath thing... By the best interpretation of this statement, it is highly confused as to what sociopathy is, and may be harmful in its belief that normal human cognitive biases are signs of mentally ill behavior. It makes total sense that people would have inconsistent metrics applied to themselves vs to others. It's normal human psychology.
    • malvosenior 8y ago
      I believe that the NYT knows they're biased and actively tries to conceal that (with articles such as this one). They also try to manipulate their readership and general discourse. So I'd say it goes beyond just regular, every day human psychology and into sociopathy or whatever the organizational equivalent is.