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The NY Post on HN? Gross.
by jonstewart 4y ago
The NY Post on HN? Gross.
- simple-thoughts 4y agoNot any worse than nyt, cnn, wsj… Get over your personal prejudice and evaluate the writing based on the quality of the article rather than your brand orientation. Not that this article is particularly good.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoI know reporters at the Times, Journal and Post. Their vetting processes are incomparable. That makes the writing at the Post (and News) more fun, because it lets itself be ridiculous. But stuff like fact checking sources, or requiring multiple sources for nontrivial claims, is a thing that’s sometimes sidestepped at one set and totally nonexistent at the other.
- simple-thoughts 4y agoI’d believe you if we hadn’t just gone through 2 years of covid disinformation spread by those organizations - whatever vetting process they are using clearly didn’t work.
- archagon 4y agoCan you be specific? What misinformation are you referring to?
- dekhn 4y agoBy any reasonable metric, NYT is far better than NY Post. The Post is a tabloid, the Times is a journal of record.
- KerrAvon 4y agoYes. I know that hackernews wants to pretend that the source doesn't matter and only the content does, but you really have to consider the source at this point. It's not the 90's anymore; people will flat out lie for their agendas in an organized, well-funded, well-written, way and there's no reasonable way you can pretend they don't. I think the guideline here should be more nuanced.