[adrianb]

> media narratives - from reuters as well as others - about "reddit attention shifting to silver"

That was amazing. It took a few weeks of WSB going on GME before the media noticed, and by that time I was sick of how everything on Reddit was about that. And then one morning all news outlets talk about silver and I had seen nothing of the sort on reddit.

This makes me worried the modern reputable media is just an echo chamber, always promoting the same stories with the same views and never investigating anything.

[pjc50]

The media are extremely vulnerable to being fed bullshit in the form of press releases and repeating stories of the form "source said X" without determining if X is actually true (which may be extremely difficult!)