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I think decentralizing the story so that it comes from a bunch of noninstitutional observers is a pretty good way to get rid of bias. I think it also helps make
by natnat 15y ago
I think decentralizing the story so that it comes from a bunch of noninstitutional observers is a pretty good way to get rid of bias. I think it also helps make news more accurate, in the sense that, in the very short term, the accuracy of a story is inversely proportional to the time since it occurred, because people need time to piece information together, and Twitter and such make distributing all of the relevant facts happen that much faster.
- fluidcruft 15y ago> people need time to piece information together Isn't that what reporters do? > Twitter and such make distributing all of the relevant facts happen that much faster Twitter certainly makes distributing all of the relevant facts happen that much faster. It also makes distributing misinformation faster.
- lizzard 15y agoPiecing information is what people do, whether they're reporters or not. Many reporters do great work, but we all need to develop the skills of detecting misinformation, rather than depending on a professional class to do it for us.