| So you have to read it with a just a little critical thinking. Is politico.eu a site with a reputation or just someone's uncle's blog? Do they have an incentive here? Have they done hatchet jobs before? Do they do them commonly? This is a claim about a particular company? Is this kind of claim contrary to that company's historical record? Is it consistent with it? Are the claims specific? Are they capable of being falsified? Could other people familiar with what has been claimed confirm it somehow? Will the publication and journalist take a reputational hit if it is all false because they've been had? And do you know something? We always needed to do this. In life when hearing claims verbally at work or wherever. When reading old-school newsprint. When listening to politicians, public servants, experts, academics. And here we are still assessing sources and looking for argument from evidence. Now yours: > "The only thing you know that is likely to be true is that someone got fired from Amazon, and thats it." Not looking so hot. But that's fine. That's really ok. |