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Turns out determining what’s true or not is hard. Hence why journalism and investigations are needed in the first place.
by ibash 8y ago
Turns out determining what’s true or not is hard. Hence why journalism and investigations are needed in the first place.
- mc32 8y agoThat presumes journalists seek neutrality; which is not quite the case. Not even talking implicit bias, but world view.
- salawat 8y agoIt's not actually journalists per se that are the problem. They are the data collectors after all. You still have a source of coercive influence making the act of journalism possible. Editor's want a spin, networks want truth massaged to optimize viewer metrics, to keep the financials healthy, so on and so forth. Truth/neutrality is not highly incentivized in our current social structure.