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This story is not outright dishonest, unlike the typical mass media story...Still, I hope they get roasted by their readers for it and forced to publish an apol

This story is not outright dishonest, unlike the typical mass media story...Still, I hope they get roasted by their readers for it and forced to publish an apology. It's immaterial whether we like or dislike people who also say so. We need to face this fact: Far too much "news" media in 2019 is shamelessly sensational and devoid of fact checking and journalistic ethics. The "Fake news" phenomenon has two sides. On one hand, there are fly-by-night small content creators popping up, and many of these are click-bait trash or are propaganda tools used to manipulate the public. On the other hand, there is a dying legacy media who is falling afoul of their fading business model and the same incentives the modern Internet creates. If it weren't for the fading credibility of the latter, the former wouldn't be a problem. We need to call out both! On the other hand, there are also "startups" in the news media space who are doing good work and are prospering. It's vital that our society develops enough of an immune system to quiet down the click bait trash. (EDIT: This cannot take the form of big tech firm censorship! It's just a 2019 technological twist that private companies now have power commensurate with governments. The effect is the same.)

dclowd9901 8y ago
I think we're finding that journalism, weirdly, is a lot like government: We get the version we deserve.
- stcredzero 8y ago
  There needs to be more calling out of the mainstream media. In particular, as a member of the Left, I have to say there needs to be calling out by the Left when the mainstream follows the lead of bad actors on the Left. Much of the loss of credibility of the mainstream media comes from a lack of calling out bad information from that direction. Note the strength of the namecalling and the high level of acrimony if that ever happens. There's a level of defensiveness there.

dclowd9901 8y ago

I think we're finding that journalism, weirdly, is a lot like government: We get the version we deserve.

stcredzero 8y ago
There needs to be more calling out of the mainstream media. In particular, as a member of the Left, I have to say there needs to be calling out by the Left when the mainstream follows the lead of bad actors on the Left. Much of the loss of credibility of the mainstream media comes from a lack of calling out bad information from that direction. Note the strength of the namecalling and the high level of acrimony if that ever happens. There's a level of defensiveness there.