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> You can avoid reading them but every journalist in the world reads them and when they break news it gets reported everywhere else. Maybe, that's literally th
by marklubi 4y ago
> You can avoid reading them but every journalist in the world reads them and when they break news it gets reported everywhere else.
Maybe, that's literally the problem. It's become a massive echo chamber. Not hard to imagine how the conspiracy theorists have come up with the mockingbird media moniker
- tootie 4y agoThe term "echo chamber" refers to reinforcing opinions and exclusion of outside sources, not the spreading of facts. If WaPo or Pro Publica uncover documents and interview a source that yields probative information then getting that info spread to every media outlet is an unequivocally good thing. When The Guardian published the Snowden leaks, do you think everyone else should have ignored it?