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Do you actually believe anyone else gets accurate news? Because that thought's beyond ridiculous.

• pjc50 5y ago
  How accurate do you want it to be? Picking a random story from the BBC front page, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-61002096 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-61002096 , what do you think is inaccurate about it? Do you think the MD has not resigned? That there have not been queues? That they have mistaken the names of people involved? That Manchester does not in fact exist and is a liberal conspiracy? (The main problem with political news is disproportionate coverage, double standards of scandal, and the selection of who gets quoted - as well as a vast area of "op-ed" which is not technically news but is on the same websites. As well as reporting on "future" or "possible" events, which by definition are difficult to be accurate about)
  • ithkuil 5y ago
    shower thought: could we improve things if we set up new rules for media so that we more clearly demarcate "descriptions of what happened" from "opinions and interpretations" and "projections and speculation"? I intentionally didn't call "descriptions of what happened" as "facts", because that would sidetrack the discussion on how to determine what's true or not etc. Just force media to clearly separate "here's what our reporters saw" from "here's what they think it means"