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> …they’re more accurate than a lot of newspaper reporting. Is that when they’re cribbing straight out of the newspaper pages, or is this just a cynical snipe
by nativeit 2y ago
> …they’re more accurate than a lot of newspaper reporting.
Is that when they’re cribbing straight out of the newspaper pages, or is this just a cynical snipe at the poor state of media that, not for nothing, tech companies have had a fair hand in kneecapping?
- ben_w 2y agoThe criticism of the performance of newspapers goes back well before Lovelace and Babbage: """I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.""" - Thomas Jefferson (not Mark Twain), 1807, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-read-newspaper-misinformed/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-read-newspaper-...