[sonnyblarney]

"And you also rely on them for information as to who is truly terrible."

No, not at all. Thankfully we have many people in press, innumerable sources of information, and a lot of public discourse on these things.

Unlike in some regions, where journalists are murdered, sometimes by the state.

[escanda]

You guessed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Couso

[luckylion]

> No, not at all. Thankfully we have many people in press, innumerable sources of information, and a lot of public discourse on these things.

That sure helped in Iraq's case. It's not like the press just repeated what the government told it.

[2_listerine_pls]

The worst kind of idiot

[dang]

Personal attacks, flamebait, unsubstantive comments will get you banned on HN. Can you please not do those? We're hoping for a site that's a bit better than internet default.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html