Kalcifer to Showerthoughts • 2 months agoIf I have to fact-check the uncited claims made in news articles, doesn't that make me the journalist?message-square237fedilinkarrow-up1644arrow-down115
arrow-up1629arrow-down1message-squareIf I have to fact-check the uncited claims made in news articles, doesn't that make me the journalist?Kalcifer to Showerthoughts • 2 months agomessage-square237fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•2 months agoThat is a good recipe for sneaking lies into the newspaper. Journalists should just be doing their job.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 months agoJournalists have one job: produce revenue one way or another. Informing the public of factual or fictional events is a byproduct of running this business.
minus-square@JubilantJaguarlink2•2 months agoThis is a cynical take that would be disputed by the people you are denigrating.
minus-squareKalciferOPlinkfedilink1•2 months agoAgreed. Imo, if the journalists simply cited their claims, then this question of whether its safe to appeal to authority wouldn’t need to be asked.
That is a good recipe for sneaking lies into the newspaper. Journalists should just be doing their job.
Journalists have one job: produce revenue one way or another. Informing the public of factual or fictional events is a byproduct of running this business.
Some definitely do that
This is a cynical take that would be disputed by the people you are denigrating.
Agreed. Imo, if the journalists simply cited their claims, then this question of whether its safe to appeal to authority wouldn’t need to be asked.