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I have so little respect for journalists. Even the highbrow news sources people love to share links to here are incredibly weasely. They all sound like Orwell's

I have so little respect for journalists. Even the highbrow news sources people love to share links to here are incredibly weasely. They all sound like Orwell's strawmen. If you ever want to verify this for yourself, watch a video capture of a big news story. I did it few times and I was shocked at the tenuous grip on reality the corresponding articles had. PS: where can us non-journalist peasants get access to data free from the priestly interpretations of jouranlists? EG the recent epstein list, or the leaked no fly list from a few years back. Searching this is always just pages of pages of journospam.

jampekka 3y ago
This may stem from the owners of media having so little respect for journalism?
- LAC-Tech 3y ago
  I suppose I might consider Assange a true independent journalist.
PinkSheep 3y ago
> get access to data free from the priestly interpretations I believe nowhere. I almost never see news media hotlink the source when we're talking about online events. In other cases that's copywriting or regurgitating news agencies' feeds... which you don't have access to, though they could be clusterized based on the ripple effect they cause (used by many outlets). As for "talking to witnesses" there currently isn't a p2p social network for news. Where one could talk to any local on the planet about an event. There's a disconnect between those who produce news for a living and the witnesses. The latter have no interest in posting or talking about it online. Sometimes it is disincentivized (punishment and persecution like whistleblowing[1]). [1] "The psychology of whistleblowing": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X15001839 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1... / https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.07.005 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.07.005

jampekka 3y ago

This may stem from the owners of media having so little respect for journalism?

LAC-Tech 3y ago
I suppose I might consider Assange a true independent journalist.

PinkSheep 3y ago

> get access to data free from the priestly interpretations I believe nowhere. I almost never see news media hotlink the source when we're talking about online events. In other cases that's copywriting or regurgitating news agencies' feeds... which you don't have access to, though they could be clusterized based on the ripple effect they cause (used by many outlets). As for "talking to witnesses" there currently isn't a p2p social network for news. Where one could talk to any local on the planet about an event. There's a disconnect between those who produce news for a living and the witnesses. The latter have no interest in posting or talking about it online. Sometimes it is disincentivized (punishment and persecution like whistleblowing[1]). [1] "The psychology of whistleblowing": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X15001839 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1... / https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.07.005 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.07.005