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> You are going to have people with different opinions saying different things, and sooner of later some of them will be wrong That’s a rather dismissive attit
by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> You are going to have people with different opinions saying different things, and sooner of later some of them will be wrong
That’s a rather dismissive attitude towards the craft of journalism. Imagine the same applies to medicine. Someone pays a doctor to let your mother die and you’d be saying “well sometimes patients die, we can’t go cherry-picking those cases and pretend it matters”
The major problem around crypto reporting wasn’t that some reporters got it wrong. It’s that some reporters got major funding from crypto bros and then happened to write extremely naive and flattering articles about crypto bringing in gullible masses who now lost their money when the FTX Ponzi went bust.
It’s not an attack on the free press to point out that writing sugarcoated lies about financial investments because you stand to earn is a scam.
- SilverBirch 4y agoThe job of journalism isn't only to report provable facts, it's to also report on what people are doing and why. It's not the NYT's job to do a deep economic analysis of crypto and come up with an editorial position on it. They interview the people involved in order to give you insight into what's going on in the industry. Is it going to be balanced? No because they're literally trying to show you what the advocates for the industry are saying, and they trust you to be literate enough to understand that when they publish an interview with SBF they are presenting what SBF wants to represent to the world and you should take it with the knowledge of what source it comes from.