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by KennyBlanken
1541 days ago
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Yep. More importantly: neither Owens nor Posobiec are journalists, subject to editorial standards and review by a news desk, an organization's editorial staff, the obudsperson, and readers. Even if they were reporters: there's often wildly different standards for tweeting versus their published work product under the organization. There is also a difference between reporting, analysis, and opinion, which a lot of people seem to either not understand or purposefully ignore...and that an organization can engage in all three, and that all three units have very different standards. He appears to have taken the middle road fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation) and a wild definition of "reporting"...then decided to claim he's generating a "news product" from that. That's...not how that works? The site's "About" page has a graphic that includes the "Q-Anon Shaman", a guy who spouts no end of conspiracy theories (one sample: TVs and radios emit brain-controlling inaudible frequencies)...with an animated bouncing buddha. I also don't see how he or his "editor" are qualified to be doing journalism review....especially not compared to plenty of other organizations already doing it. He claims to be doing "PG research" at a UK university. Curiously the only place his name appears on a Heriot site is as a postdoc researcher in a group that has nothing to do with journalism https://cabs.site.hw.ac.uk/about/. I also see no evidence of him ever having been published academically; how he's managed that as a postdoc, I don't know. |
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