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If a clock's broken and thus is right only twice a day, is it a clock worth keeping? The Daily Mail made its bed and it should have to lie in it.
by RankingMember 8y ago
If a clock's broken and thus is right only twice a day, is it a clock worth keeping? The Daily Mail made its bed and it should have to lie in it.
- nailer 8y agoSure, but every other major news source has also published something verifiably false. Pick your poison.
- isostatic 8y agoSo two sources One is 95% truth, 5% they get wrong and apologise One is 95% lies, and 5% they get it right Which do you read?
- nailer 8y agoIt depends on the impact of the lies. The Guardian's Mark Duggan headline was the subject of a PCC complaint awarded against them, see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/feb/23/pcc-guardian-mark-duggan-headline https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/feb/23/pcc-guardian-m... This could have easily led to more violence. This week The Washington Post recently published the false narrative against a 16 year old boy approached by a native man at a protest (saying that he'd approached and threatened the man), resulting in thousands of violent threats against a child. 'Proper' journalism doesn't exist. Maybe it never did, it's just more obvious now. It's news entertainment.
- RankingMember 8y agoHow about this metaphor: There are two burger joints. One consistently gets poor health code reviews, vermin in the preparation areas/mouse feces on the cutting board, etc. while another has a mostly clean rap sheet, only marred by a "missing a hair net" violation once every few years. Which one do you go to? Certainly they're not equivalent, right?