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I highly recommend everyone go back and read the headlines (and articles) from a year ago from multiple news sources frequently. It gives great perspective on

I highly recommend everyone go back and read the headlines (and articles) from a year ago from multiple news sources frequently. It gives great perspective on the narratives at the time with hindsight as to how those narratives changed and if the predictions made were substantiated.

kube-system 6y ago
Do you have any interesting examples?
- bitexploder 6y ago
  Almost anything in politics is viewed completely differently after a year. Just look at any news story you followed last year. Around the election. Impeachment. EU/Brexit, etc.
- tenpies 6y ago
  Two easy ones: COVID coverage from January to March, and Kamala Harris coverage from Democratic Debates to VP nomination. For COVID, back then, it was "tech bros are afraid of the flu (and maybe also racist)" and then "go hug a Chinese person", and then "closing flights from Wuhan is racist (even though China itself was doing it domestically)". It was funny to see the escalating tsunami of wrongness coming at the media, but of course, they would never admit wrong-doing. For Kamala Harris, well she was (is?) hugely unpopular. She has terrible political baggage, has been personally responsible for terrible systemic racism, and the news coverage reflected that quite accurately up to a very specific point. Tulsi torpedoed her early on in the debates by bringing all this up. However, when Biden said his VP choice would be a woman of color, there was an immediately 180 in coverage and retroactive editing to make it look like she was an exceptional candidate who has always championed racial issues and is a regular everyday person just like all of us.
  - DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
    > closing flights from Wuhan is racist (even though China itself was doing it domestically) This is a myth. Wuhan Tianhe International Airport was completely shut down. Domestic and international flights stopped at the same time. Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution falsely claimed that China kept allowing international flights to keep taking off after it stopped domestic flights, and his claim has since gone viral. Even Trump has repeated it several times on national television. The irony is that the airport was shut down so quickly that foreign governments didn't have time to get their citizens out of Wuhan. They had to negotiate with the Chinese government to allow specially chartered evacuation flights to take off from the city. But Niall Ferguson looked at a flight tracker that showed scheduled (not actual) flights, and concluded that international flights were still taking off from Wuhan, and then wrote an Op-Ed about it. The myth has never died, despite repeated debunking.
  - jayd16 6y ago
    Not sure what you're reading but I wouldn't call those wide spread takes from a year ago even if they existed. That said, when you drop out of a race or an election completes, the oppo stops. That's not really a surprising change.
- ErikVandeWater 6y ago
  Not exactly an article, but John Oliver's concerns over the security of voting machines in the US (November, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0 Personally I had not seen anything from him stating he believed the security holes were fixed on a broad scale, or on any scale. But his recent video in November 2020 suggests he no longer had any substantial concerns regarding voting machine security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMz_sTgoydQ&t=521s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMz_sTgoydQ&t=521s
  - kube-system 6y ago
    I think that highlights the issue with getting your news from a satirist more than anything. Objective reporting undermines the shtick.
neartheplain 6y ago
Beyond headlines, news outlets also silently edit old stories, sometimes years after the fact. The Washington Post was recently caught scrubbing an unflattering quote from a 2019 profile of Kamala Harris: https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-washington-post-memory-holed-kamala-harris-bad-joke-about-inmates-begging-for-food-and-water/ https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-washington-post-memory-hol...

kube-system 6y ago

Do you have any interesting examples?

bitexploder 6y ago
Almost anything in politics is viewed completely differently after a year. Just look at any news story you followed last year. Around the election. Impeachment. EU/Brexit, etc.
tenpies 6y ago
Two easy ones: COVID coverage from January to March, and Kamala Harris coverage from Democratic Debates to VP nomination. For COVID, back then, it was "tech bros are afraid of the flu (and maybe also racist)" and then "go hug a Chinese person", and then "closing flights from Wuhan is racist (even though China itself was doing it domestically)". It was funny to see the escalating tsunami of wrongness coming at the media, but of course, they would never admit wrong-doing. For Kamala Harris, well she was (is?) hugely unpopular. She has terrible political baggage, has been personally responsible for terrible systemic racism, and the news coverage reflected that quite accurately up to a very specific point. Tulsi torpedoed her early on in the debates by bringing all this up. However, when Biden said his VP choice would be a woman of color, there was an immediately 180 in coverage and retroactive editing to make it look like she was an exceptional candidate who has always championed racial issues and is a regular everyday person just like all of us.
- DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
  > closing flights from Wuhan is racist (even though China itself was doing it domestically) This is a myth. Wuhan Tianhe International Airport was completely shut down. Domestic and international flights stopped at the same time. Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution falsely claimed that China kept allowing international flights to keep taking off after it stopped domestic flights, and his claim has since gone viral. Even Trump has repeated it several times on national television. The irony is that the airport was shut down so quickly that foreign governments didn't have time to get their citizens out of Wuhan. They had to negotiate with the Chinese government to allow specially chartered evacuation flights to take off from the city. But Niall Ferguson looked at a flight tracker that showed scheduled (not actual) flights, and concluded that international flights were still taking off from Wuhan, and then wrote an Op-Ed about it. The myth has never died, despite repeated debunking.
- jayd16 6y ago
  Not sure what you're reading but I wouldn't call those wide spread takes from a year ago even if they existed. That said, when you drop out of a race or an election completes, the oppo stops. That's not really a surprising change.
ErikVandeWater 6y ago
Not exactly an article, but John Oliver's concerns over the security of voting machines in the US (November, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0 Personally I had not seen anything from him stating he believed the security holes were fixed on a broad scale, or on any scale. But his recent video in November 2020 suggests he no longer had any substantial concerns regarding voting machine security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMz_sTgoydQ&t=521s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMz_sTgoydQ&t=521s
- kube-system 6y ago
  I think that highlights the issue with getting your news from a satirist more than anything. Objective reporting undermines the shtick.

neartheplain 6y ago

Beyond headlines, news outlets also silently edit old stories, sometimes years after the fact. The Washington Post was recently caught scrubbing an unflattering quote from a 2019 profile of Kamala Harris: https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-washington-post-memory-holed-kamala-harris-bad-joke-about-inmates-begging-for-food-and-water/ https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-washington-post-memory-hol...