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Two issues: 1) For many people, myself included, the mainstream media's reputation is so extremely damaged that anything short of a full, complete, tear down a
by thegrim33 3y ago
Two issues:
1) For many people, myself included, the mainstream media's reputation is so extremely damaged that anything short of a full, complete, tear down and from scratch rebuild of the entire industry won't in the slightest bit convince me to even give them a second chance. I've already moved on.
2) Even if a network literally posts only verifiable true facts, even if they have a panel of 1000 scientists and 1000 experts and 1000 people of different political persuasions that all agree with each other that the printed facts are "true", the organization can still easily lie and manipulate the population by simply selectively choosing which stories to cover and which to ignore, depending on which stories benefit their ideologies or hurt their rival ideologoies. Just "telling the truth" isn't remotely enough, they need to be both politically and ideologically neutral, they need to cover all events impartially and equally.
- topherclay 3y ago>they need to cover all events impartially and equally. A 100% accurate map of the territory is just the territory itself, and is useless as a map.
- unraveller 3y agoChanging anything would be admitting fault, and a self-professed authority never does that. Not when they can just latch on to other ways of virtue signalling as a kind of reputation repair substitute, much like what their advertising space does for other companies.