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The reporters I know won't publish a claim without two or more independent sources.

• jerf 7y ago
  It would probably be a challenge to find a time when reporters couldn't find two people who think bad times are just around the corner. Predicting recession is the economic equivalent of the first post on HN being disagreement with the posted article, and just as popular. And that's long before accounting for the possibility of agendas skewing what people say, since I hardly believe our financial system is run by disinterested angels, or by people who inexplicably have failed to notice how much power they have when they open their mouth. You don't stand a chance of convincing me that all of the participants in this process are just upstanding folks who wouldn't dream of doing anything untoward and that there's nobody would even spare a single thought for how they might manipulate the system for their own goals. The pile of evidence you'd have to present to overcome the pile of evidence that we all have (not just me) to the contrary is too large to fit on planet Earth.
  • gerbilly 7y ago
    > It would probably be a challenge to find a time when reporters couldn't find two people who think bad times are just around the corner. Sure, and you don't think journalists have developed a culture around this fact? They're not dumber than people on HN because they don't use machine learning models. They've developed practises to avoid being manipulated. And yes, those practises do fail or break down sometimes, or PR flaks find new ways to sneak their agendas in, sure, and this is why you should read news from multiple independent sources.