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More like, news from certain sources should be taken with a grain of salt. There are plenty of good journalists with high reputation that you can certainly tak

More like, news from certain sources should be taken with a grain of salt. There are plenty of good journalists with high reputation that you can certainly take more than a pinch of salt with.

rock_hard 8y ago
Samples?
- callalex 8y ago
  Anything that hits the front page of nytimes.com or washingtonpost.com for example. Opinion pieces are a different ballgame, obviously.
thesagan 8y ago
Even reputations are hotly debated in this climate. I think a good habit is to read from as many sources as possible, including controversial ones, and making a private determination as to how to weight reporting.
- solveit 8y ago
  There are enough sources supporting any worldview that there's a real risk that you'll just end up supporting whichever one you started with. I have no idea how you can do better though.
  - thesagan 8y ago
    I struggle with confirmation bias, myself.
zaru27 8y ago
There's no shortage of people who share that same "belief", but would end up writing down a different and conflicting list of people than you, with no loss of accuracy