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Journalism. Reaching out to involved parties for comment, boots on the ground, making retractions, reserving judgement, citing sources, seeking and contextualiz
by jjoonathan 3y ago
Journalism. Reaching out to involved parties for comment, boots on the ground, making retractions, reserving judgement, citing sources, seeking and contextualizing opposition and/or expertise, making an attempt to prefer observation over interpretation, pushing back on wild claims, etc etc etc.
I was acutely aware of partisan bias in MSM but I didn't appreciate just how much they actually did get right until the deluge of "MSM sux, here's what THEY don't want you to know" replaced it.
- lukeholder 3y agoYou do realise he has a large team of journalist behind him?
- jjoonathan 3y agoIf they are doing any of the above, it would be a 180 degree change from the Russel Brand that I blocked from my feeds a few years ago.
- vuln 3y agoSo you’re making assumptions of Brand’s content that you haven’t seen in years? What are you basing your assumptions on? What the journalists tell you? Seems like a pretty disingenuous take.
- ifyoubuildit 3y agoThis is a good summary of the threads I'm seeing here.