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Major news organizations lie by omission and innuendo. Random people on the internet lie by making stuff up. You shouldn’t trust major news outlets to give you
by cirgue 4y ago
Major news organizations lie by omission and innuendo. Random people on the internet lie by making stuff up. You shouldn’t trust major news outlets to give you a clear picture of the world, but they can be generally trusted as a source of verifiable fact, even if an incomplete one.
- pjc50 4y agoIn particular, a major news organisation saying "person X said Y" nearly always will be entirely accurate that person X did indeed say Y. That doesn't in and of itself convey anything about whether Y is true. And you should be quite wary of "unnamed sources". (exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari managed to get sacked for entirely fabricating quotes)
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago> That doesn't in and of itself convey anything about whether Y is true. Especially if X is a celebrity, and not a celebrity for their knowledge about Y. That just says "some random celebrity shot their mouth off about something they likely know next to zero about." That conveys zero bits of useful information.