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> So how much was Vice paid for this article? For journalists, something like that is quite an accusation, and it really doesn’t help anyone to thoughtlessly m
by IfOnlyYouKnew 5y ago
> So how much was Vice paid for this article?
For journalists, something like that is quite an accusation, and it really doesn’t help anyone to thoughtlessly make it.
Maybe they are stupid, or just have different ideas of what’s newsworthy, or it was a slow news day…whatever. But all of those come down to a difference of opinion, not a statement of fact made without evidence.
“Assume good faith” is in the guidelines here. And while it isn’t explicitly extended to the articles themselves, the reason for including it do extend to other interactions. Mindless cynicism leads to the sort of corrosive distrust that’s eating away at civil societies everywhere.
- beeboop 5y agosponsored content and "native ads" happen all the time in news outlets and channels. not saying this is an example of it - though it's possible since it looks and reads exactly like a native ad would
- liaukovv 5y agoModern journalism as a whole forfeited it's good faith credit quite some time ago, kinda like crypto scammers.
- captainredbeard 5y ago> Mindless cynicism leads to the sort of corrosive distrust that’s eating away at civil societies everywhere. ...repeated breaking of trust by institutions has earned that. It is unfortunate and it does eat away at our civil society. The solution is to fix the broken institutions and re-gain trust, not to blindly follow them like livestock!