• The Picard ManeuverOPM
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    What’s that old quote? “A lie can make it around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”, or something like that? I believe that was pre-internet too.

    It also happens with politics. I constantly see provocative headlines get lots of attention in one circle, and then the later corrections only get passed around in the opposite circle, if at all.

    • Scrubbles
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      213 months ago

      Look at just yesterday. One clickbait site said Beyonce was going to perform at the dnc, and by the time the truth and correction made it around it was already past time

      • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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        We desperately need a return of journalistic ethics and bland, just-the-facts news.

            • @UmeU
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              What’s more reliable than NPR?

              • Possibly linux
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                Nothing is reliable that’s the problem. NPR is a propaganda machine. There are worse ones to be far

              • @TokenBoomer
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                Critical thinking and media literacy. Just 2 days ago I heard NPR try to gaslight me that Gaza wasn’t a genocide.

                • @JigglySackles
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                  I’m so sick of these bloodthirty zionist bastards running everything

    • @[email protected]
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      Plus those corrections only show up as a footnote on articles without it being altered or removed. Its laughable.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        That’s weird. Ideally you should put it right next to the title, that there has been an addendum and the following might be incorrect/outdated.

        • lad
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          63 months ago

          That depends on what your goal is, I think

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            I’d consider the goal be to:

            1. Keep the original article for historical and reference purposes
            2. Make sure that anyone who only cared to read the first sentence, didn’t leave with confident misinformation.
            • lad
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              33 months ago

              Your goals are too honest for mass media 😅

    • Possibly linux
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      133 months ago

      Its even worse in science. Lots of crazy headlines that are later debunked quietly

      • @shneancy
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        103 months ago

        those headlines can also be debunked loudly and yet, anti-vaxxers still exist, somehow

        • Possibly linux
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          23 months ago

          I wasn’t talking about vaccinations. I was talking about fusion and other buzzy topics.

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          53 months ago

          Which directly impacts funding

          That’s the big issue. If a project doesn’t have big headlines frequently it is killed.

          • @[email protected]
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            I think more likely is that the news outlets need the revenue from clicks, and are willing to trade their reputation to get them. Accurate science journalism doesn’t pay, capitalism is a race to the bottom.