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There's a difference between "media companies may have conflicts of interest or ideological bents" and "every single proposition ever stated by a journalist is
by samhw 5y ago
There's a difference between "media companies may have conflicts of interest or ideological bents" and "every single proposition ever stated by a journalist is specifically false".
- skrtskrt 5y agoit is true that a lot of mainstream media outlets that people consider "probably biased but overall trustworthy" just regurgitate talking points from the State Department, law enforcement, etc as fact. One only needs to read the CIA's Wikipedia page or the CIA's own website to understand how embarrassing of a failure of thought and journalism it is to trust these institutions