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This author sets up a lot of his own personal standards for scientific reporting, and then calls outlets "dishonest" for failing to meet them. Its fair enough
by bloat 4y ago
This author sets up a lot of his own personal standards for scientific reporting, and then calls outlets "dishonest" for failing to meet them.
Its fair enough if he doesn't like their reporting, but pretending that they are deliberately and dishonestly subverting standards that he alone has invented is nonsense.
- scarmig 4y agoMost people have the notion that journalists build some level of expertise in a topic and interview multiple relevant experts before offering their honest take which, although as vulnerable to human error as anything, has incorporated feedback from principal sources. The fact that most journalism is aggregating snippets from press releases and recombining them into a particular favored narrative stance is surprising to many and takes away from the imagined value that journalists add.