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Really? Who cares who's paying your news source? Isn't possible bias one of the most important issues when it comes to trusting a source? There are degrees of
by rapind 14y ago
Really? Who cares who's paying your news source? Isn't possible bias one of the most important issues when it comes to trusting a source?
There are degrees of bias and as a reader why would you want to waste your time reading from a source known to have a massive conflict of interest?
I definitely appreciate knowing about a source's bias.
- flomo 14y agoIt's certainly fine to know about it, IMO, but all of the internet taunting seems immature and unnecessary.
- rapind 14y agoI can agree with that. Good point.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- fpgeek 14y agoPart of the taunting now is in response to his past behavior. Florian repeatedly refused to talk about his funding and insisted it was irrelevant (he has a history at lwn.net among other places). Now that we know the full context, people on the other side of that argument naturally want to underline it.