Showerthoughts • 2 days ago

If I have to fact-check the uncited claims made in news articles, doesn't that make me the journalist?

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If I have to fact-check the uncited claims made in news articles, doesn't that make me the journalist?

Showerthoughts • 2 days ago

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KalciferOP
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1•22 hours ago

[…] are you saying I’m unqualified to be a journalist? Because yeah you are probably right. […]

What makes you think that you are unqualified?
- @TropicalDingdong
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  1•21 hours ago
  
  What makes you think that you are unqualified?
  
  A more than cursory knowledge of statistics.
  - KalciferOP
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    1•20 hours ago
    Statistics of what?

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