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The point is that journalists tend to be a lot less reliable than the reading public seems to think they are. Most people would have enough sense to take inform
by gweinberg 6y ago
The point is that journalists tend to be a lot less reliable than the reading public seems to think they are.
Most people would have enough sense to take information with a grain of salt if the source is "I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy." Even if the guy is reliable, who is to say that the other guy is reliable?
- tptacek 6y agoJournalists aren't random people who have "heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy". They do reporting: they call people, develop sources, and work with fact checkers. That doesn't make them right all the time, or mean you should read them uncritically. But, of course, the bullshit meme is that you shouldn't take them seriously at all. It's premised on holding journalists to a standard we don't hold doctors to, let alone software developers.