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> News have a social duty to inform the public News is an incredibly bad vehicle for anything involving public responsibility. News platformed Andrew Wakefield
by pjc50 1y ago
> News have a social duty to inform the public
News is an incredibly bad vehicle for anything involving public responsibility. News platformed Andrew Wakefield.
- ben_w 1y agoDespite all the failings of the press, I am now wondering: is it the least bad we could have? (I do recognise I'm pattern matching to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds, but I don't say this is the best that could ever be if an all-knowing all-powerful being did it, just the best that could be done in practice by the first primates to cross over the threshold of inventing movable type).
- Frieren 1y ago> News is an incredibly bad vehicle for anything involving public responsibility. In the USA, for sure. But news can be and are informative and helping in other places.