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by dfxm12
1576 days ago
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Lately I've begun to doubt every source of information that could possibly be shared because of financial, political, or misplaced altruistic motivations. So I've been ignoring as much as possible. This is what the people sewing misinformation in the first place want. You can act their pawn and ignore the world around you, leading to making underinformed choices at the polls, at the newsstand or wherever, or you can trust your own bullshit detector. It's hard to have this conversation when you just write off every source of information. Most of the established news sources get the facts correct, and from there, it's a matter of ignoring the analysis/opinion sections. AP and Reuters are two trustworthy sources that pretty much stick to the facts. Most of the top 25% of this chart is pretty good, TBH: https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/?utm_source=HomePage_St... Also, keep in mind, humans write these stories. Getting one thing wrong here or there is not an indictment of that writer or their publication, if it's handled properly by printing a correct or retraction. |
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This is the normal feeling I think we've had for decades. The recent ten years or so has felt much more as though:
- certain news stories are just not reported if they are going to send the wrong message. E.g. reporting on the BLM organisation (on both sides)
- certain news stories are just built out of nowhere and even if technically retracted, are not retracted with the same force as they were generated. E.g. Covington kid reality on the left, Covid facts on the right
Perhaps it was always this way, but that's how it seems to me.