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So counter to your point, Bloomberg reported on a mid-sized company I worked for. The vast majority of the article was sourced from one disgruntled employee, an

So counter to your point, Bloomberg reported on a mid-sized company I worked for. The vast majority of the article was sourced from one disgruntled employee, and was completely untrue based on objective facts. An example I could verify visually was the supposition that executive X was hardly in the office. I sat 30 ft from executive X, and he was there every day. I'm not saying this particular article is incorrect, just that I wouldn't strongly assume either direction without more information.

propman 8y ago
Was that a highly detailed front page investigative story? Because I’m specifically talking about those. For other cases, they are wrong quite frequently, some of the nonopinion articles on Bloomberg are often a few rungs above college journalism reporting. All elite papers are the same in that regard. The Nytimes just a few weeks ago they had a story that Nikki Haley spent tens of thousands of dollars on curtains and a possible corruption scandal which was easily disproven hours later. Those are usually junior journalists working on it alone, sometimes creating a story rather than reporting on one and fitting all the facts to match a singular narrative. These ones I’m talking about are different. They have a much higher level of checks and due dillegence. Edit: I absolutely could be wrong and things could be disproven in this, but just in my experience highly detailed articles like this are usually right on the money or close but just like everything in the world, can’t say anything with certainty.
- nikhizzle 8y ago
  Yes, it was a major story which got a lot of attention and is still mentioned as a source by other journalists.
smsm42 8y ago
I think respectable MSM rarely lie about having sources and sources having said what they claim they said. However, sources can be chosen, and sources can lie, so the question is how deep your trust goes. This is why anonymous sources are always very problematic - you can trust that the paper accurately reported that somebody said something, but you have no idea if that somebody was lying or not.

propman 8y ago

Was that a highly detailed front page investigative story? Because I’m specifically talking about those. For other cases, they are wrong quite frequently, some of the nonopinion articles on Bloomberg are often a few rungs above college journalism reporting. All elite papers are the same in that regard. The Nytimes just a few weeks ago they had a story that Nikki Haley spent tens of thousands of dollars on curtains and a possible corruption scandal which was easily disproven hours later. Those are usually junior journalists working on it alone, sometimes creating a story rather than reporting on one and fitting all the facts to match a singular narrative. These ones I’m talking about are different. They have a much higher level of checks and due dillegence. Edit: I absolutely could be wrong and things could be disproven in this, but just in my experience highly detailed articles like this are usually right on the money or close but just like everything in the world, can’t say anything with certainty.

nikhizzle 8y ago
Yes, it was a major story which got a lot of attention and is still mentioned as a source by other journalists.

smsm42 8y ago

I think respectable MSM rarely lie about having sources and sources having said what they claim they said. However, sources can be chosen, and sources can lie, so the question is how deep your trust goes. This is why anonymous sources are always very problematic - you can trust that the paper accurately reported that somebody said something, but you have no idea if that somebody was lying or not.