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Nothing groundbreaking here. Ever heard of the Associated Press? When dealing with large complex issues you need to collaborate to try and provide accurate rep
by TheAceOfHearts 5y ago
Nothing groundbreaking here. Ever heard of the Associated Press?
When dealing with large complex issues you need to collaborate to try and provide accurate reporting. It's best to operate under the assumption that most reporting is incomplete or it contains inaccuracies lest you fall for the trap of believing you have a perfectly accurate picture of reality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press
- emodendroket 5y agoIn some sense you're right, but I feel like this is also a symptom of how unhealthy news organizations are and will accelerate the trend where local news reporting is anemic and toothless outside of the major media markets.
- datavirtue 5y agoI have always viewed local news as anemic. As a young child I found it super boring and would always look forward to national and international news. In my hometown, the last time our major news paper ran a good corruption story it got attacked by Carl Lindner and subsequently neutered. Fast forward a few decades and our city was found to be a hotbed of corruption, not by local journalism, but by the FBI. It was unchecked but could have easily been uncovered by decent journalism a lot sooner.
- emodendroket 5y agoAt one point American cities all had multiple newspapers with staff doing real investigative work but those days are getting to be pretty far behind us. Now you've got one guy who covers an entire region and is obviously just writing up press releases.