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Most reporters are lazy or pressed for time or both and don't fact-check. This has been a problem for some time. Many articles are also generated by software or
by macspoofing 12y ago
Most reporters are lazy or pressed for time or both and don't fact-check. This has been a problem for some time. Many articles are also generated by software or thrown together by minimum wage workers to generate clicks. This has also been a problem for some time.
As a consumer of news, you always have to keep that in the back of your mind when you read news.
- smacktoward 12y agoIt would also help to be willing to pay for actual real news reportage, of course. The reason why the online news business is increasingly minimum wage workers driven to generate clicks is because that's the only way anybody's found to make money in the online news business.
- macspoofing 12y agoWould you really? Do you right now, pay for any news, like a New York Time subscription?