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Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Silver2195 posted:

Now, here's the interesting media criticism angle: Why doesn't someone at the Times do a quick Google search on the recommended books when they do book-recommendation book interviews like this? .
Because legacy media has abandoned any pretense of doing actual journalism in favor of just quoting whoever is currently standing in front of them.

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Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

awesmoe posted:

There's a meaningful difference between misleading presentation/highlighting of facts (eg, fox's coverage of hilary's various scandals) and literal fake news (pizzagate, qanon, etc). Ytlaya has good points about the invisibility of propaganda for the status quo , but I'm gonna draw a line in the sand and say that reporting based in fact is better than reporting not based in fact.
Where does the entire leadup to the Iraq War fall on this spectrum for you?

Because it was uncritical parroting of obvious lies, but also a man in a suit did say those lies so it wasn't "fake news."

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Herstory Begins Now posted:

If you think that all jouranlism is intrinsically corrupted by the mere association with anyone who isn't perfectly objective, go look up what journalism is getting awards and read the pieces that are getting recognized.
Claas Relotius won a shitload of very prestigious awards, and Suicide Squad got an Oscar.

Industry back-patting parties are not a good judge of anything.

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