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by proximitysauce 7y ago
In addition to partisanship and sensationalism, access journalism has dramatically lowered the quality of what gets reported: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_journalism It's also worth referencing Chomsky&#
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
It's much more rare though and it's almost entirely absent when looking at political coverage. Two journalists I can think of off the top of my head who have acted with outstanding integrity in recent years are Ronan Farrow and Ju
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Even with Farrow's access and background he barely got the story out. > And a large part of Ronan's story was to try how this worked. It wasn't that the people who knew (to varying degree) did not want to out him. They jus
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Sure: * Harvey Weinstein was covered up by many in the media as detailed in Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize winning piece in The New Yorker [1] * ABC killed a story about Jeffery Epstein in 2015 in part to retain access to the royal fa
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
When the media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public, the result is the proliferation of conspiracy theories and a culture of distrust. Alex Jones isn't the answer, but neither is he the main problem. The proble
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
A true commitment to diversity would see them putting poor people on the board. A rich person of a different color, gender or sexual orientation is still a rich person. I don’t see this making any kind of material impact on company behavior
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
An anonymous account is not the same thing as a bot. As acrimonious as the current state of politics is, I wouldn't blame anyone for using a pseudonym online to voice their opinion.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Regardless of why the author thinks they're sad, it's a mistake to project the mental and emotional state of someone based on some facets gleaned from checking out their social media profiles. It's actually kind of creepy to
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
There's nothing bot like about this person's post. It's actually kind of a nice tale of civic re-engagement. It does make me more interested in hearing what Yang has to say because it seems honest and like a statement from
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
That's a lot of narrative overlaid on the data. The author even says this about Democratic politician accounts: > All of them had bot activity of some kind. Given enough time to collect the data, bot networks would eventually appear
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Forth would be great too. I think there's value in learning a stack based language. That being said I suspect LISP is more practical.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I really feel like they should teach LISP in elementary school. It has extremely simple rules to get started and helps people intuitively understand programming concepts. Maybe an updated The Little Schemer style curriculum: https:/&#
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I mean this in the most respectful way possible, but have you considered your own antagonism against Reddit is not healthy for the community? Throughout the years I've seen you talk down about Reddit and the people there quite a bit. I