3 ms·
WaPo talks about backlash against constant negativity, but I avoid news for another reason: for any field I care about, I hear news weeks/months before it reach
by concinds 3y ago
WaPo talks about backlash against constant negativity, but I avoid news for another reason: for any field I care about, I hear news weeks/months before it reaches mainstream press, and it's unpleasant and cringeworthy to read their oversimplified, dramatized retelling. For any field I don't care about, I can't evaluate their accuracy and don't trust them.
As a rule, the bigger the target audience, the less it's worth, because the masses aren't discerning.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoGood point. When you see how mainstream news mangles reporting on a subject you know, you have to extrapolate that they do the same for all the other subjects you don’t know.
- concinds 3y agoAdding: For example of sheer propaganda, framing Privacy Pass (and by extension, Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal) as a "win", with zero discussion of downsides, see WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/25/captchas-hate-privacy-pass/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/25/captcha...