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We need more of this kind of breakdown from our economic and financial media.
by silverbax88 15y ago
We need more of this kind of breakdown from our economic and financial media.
- jbooth 15y agoThis is just some guy with a blog, he's not the media. The media are Very Serious People, and things like empiricism and statistics aren't part of Good Journalism. They have a much more impartial system, where they ask a democrat and a republican, then average the responses.
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- mey 15y agoGenerally I don't support snark on HN (even when I myself am the one being snarky), but I clicked the upvote reflexively after reading your comment. Edit: to clarify, consider this a use case for voting undo option.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoAgreed; deleted.
- HockeyBiasDotCo 15y agoSheesh... Research much? This 'some guy with a blog' happens to be very highly thought of in many financial circles. See http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/media-review/ http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/media-review/
- silverbax88 15y agoActually, they don't have an impartial system at all; that's the concept, but not the practice. Journalism isn't just 'we report everything everybody says', true journalism means digging to find out the actual facts and report those, and then possibly include the opinions of those who have a vested interest in interpretation. And saying 'just some guy with a blog' is not an argument. That's just the old trick of 'shoot the messenger'. What, exactly, qualifies someone with a television camera or a printing press as more credible than someone who is writing for a blog? Why would that make any difference as to the whether the content is true or not? It doesn't. When studying journalism in college, you learn that when someone tries to discredit the source of an article rather than attacking the article on merit, then it's a near-certainty that the content in the article is true.
- Locke1689 15y agoJbooth was being facetious.