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Vice has that reputation. This is the problem. There's plenty of newsrooms doing solid work. You can't do this any more than you can talk about restaurants whi
by coffeefirst 6y ago
Vice has that reputation.
This is the problem. There's plenty of newsrooms doing solid work. You can't do this any more than you can talk about restaurants while describing fast food burgers and a fancy tapas bar in the same sentence.
There's more interesting problems here. Outlets with actual scientists on staff do better science coverage, local institutions can cover a crisis with a better grasp on the context than a global organization that's sending reporters there for the first time. But before we can have that conversation we need to paint with a narrower brush.
- busterarm 6y agoDefinitely. I've certainly found my own sources for the kinds of news that I'm interested in. A lot of it is independent journalists/*loggers. Often enough I can check their sources and check multiple points of view on the same topic. The problem is that's a lot of work. Other people I might want to educate about the facts haven't put in that work -- they've just watched CNN/MSNBC/FOX or read the NYT/etc. And most of those get it wrong.
- coffeefirst 6y agoSure, and I won't defend cable news at all. The 24/7 realtime nature of what they do is set up to be superficial and error-prone.