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The scary thing is, I don't know if I can trust him less than any 'reputable newspaper'. At least if this he says dumb things, someone on HN will call him out
by hyperman1 6y ago
The scary thing is, I don't know if I can trust him less than any 'reputable newspaper'. At least if this he says dumb things, someone on HN will call him out. The reputable source has only one voice, it will say anything that brings in extra money, and lots of invisible third parties will try to influence it.
- humaniania 6y ago"The scary thing is, I don't know if I can trust him less than any 'reputable newspaper'." Do you not know how professional journalism functions? You can verify decades of history with very limited retractions. There's good reason why people trust the New York Times.
- hyperman1 6y agoCan't comment on the NYTimed, as I am not from the USA. But there is a huge rift between usefull and not wrong. There is the whole Gell-Mann amnesia thing. There is the basic selection of which news is important and which facts are relevant for it. There is the bias in reporting. Each of these can make an article untrustworthy without needing any retraction.