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> We live in a sea of mis-information, we desperately need help making sense of the deluge of nonsense coming our way every day and the societal organ responsib
by austincheney 6y ago
> We live in a sea of mis-information, we desperately need help making sense of the deluge of nonsense coming our way every day and the societal organ responsible for that spends its time contributing to the chaos or flattering itself.
The easiest way to start is by not confusing mainstream journalism for its editorialists. Due to that I have completely written off FoxNews and anything that refers to itself as liberal or conservative news.
An ever better way to avoid nonsense and misinformation is not use social media as a news source.
If you aren’t willing to do, or incapable of, just those two things it’s hard to take you seriously.
Lately, I have really fallen into favor with France24 and Al Jazeera for news.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoAl Jazeera may cover world news more objectively than CNN or The Wall Street Journal, but they are literally an extension of the Qatari government.
- austincheney 6y agoThe same can be said of the BBC. That is actually how journalism is funded in much of the world, state-sponsor or state official news. That is potentially but not necessarily problematic.
- throwaway894345 6y agoBBC has also trended sharply away from neutrality and objectivity in its pursuit of clicks, so I’m not sure this is the best example to make your point.
- Pyramus 6y ago> trended sharply away This is not my perception at all, do you have any evidence or anecdata for that claim? The BBC has always produced a varied mix of palatable mainstream entertainment, niche entertainment, independent news and investigative reporting. Criticism of the BBC for being too mainstream or not mainstream enough is as old as the BBC. In any case, compared to the US it's a completely different world.
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