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0 points__d2y ago0 comments

And you'd trust the news out of ... where, exactly?

I think it's pretty clear from the last decade that the major journalism providers in the US (for example) are also corrupt, and that's true of every country I've experienced.

Which is not to say that everywhere suffers this problem to the same degree, but just that the notion of a "trusted source of news" is demonstrably naive.

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ericmay2y ago

Nah, that’s a false equivalency because you’re equating “some corruption exists” like in the US to ~99% corruption as it exists in China w.r.t how it seems you are defining corruption in the mainstream press.

Because unlike China there exists enough of a free press, from institutions down to individual bloggers and professors, who can jump on the Internet and write almost anything without repercussion and if they write something very good or very important it’ll be spread.

__dOP2y ago

I think you're both over-estimating the situation in the US, and under-estimating the situation in China, but you're right: there's a difference.

My point is that _trusting_ news organizations is dumb. None is trustworthy. Whether their coverage is manufactured/absent/biased because it's required by the government, required by the owners, required by the editor, required by the organizational culture, or even a side-effect of their workload, nothing is trustworthy.

I'm not sure there was ever a time that the press could be trusted, but it absolutely cannot be trusted now.

ericmay2y ago

Personally I don’t find “trust nothing” to be very useful or practical. My local TV news reported that the Ohio Senate introduced a bill to do X and they reported that an estimated 26 people died the other day due to a tornado or series of tornadoes in Mississippi. I’m supposed to not trust that reporting?

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dmix2y ago

Just because “American also bad” doesn’t mean that they are in the same ballpark of bad.

__dOP2y ago

Agreed. See the last line in my comment.

dmix2y ago

I read that before replying. That was the type cope that come attached to these sorts of distracting replies to redirect attention to the amateur leagues while the NBA tier players run rampant.

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0 points__d2y ago0 comments

And you'd trust the news out of ... where, exactly?

I think it's pretty clear from the last decade that the major journalism providers in the US (for example) are also corrupt, and that's true of every country I've experienced.

Which is not to say that everywhere suffers this problem to the same degree, but just that the notion of a "trusted source of news" is demonstrably naive.

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ericmay2y ago

__dOP2y ago

I think you're both over-estimating the situation in the US, and under-estimating the situation in China, but you're right: there's a difference.

I'm not sure there was ever a time that the press could be trusted, but it absolutely cannot be trusted now.

ericmay2y ago

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dmix2y ago

Just because “American also bad” doesn’t mean that they are in the same ballpark of bad.

__dOP2y ago

Agreed. See the last line in my comment.

dmix2y ago

I read that before replying. That was the type cope that come attached to these sorts of distracting replies to redirect attention to the amateur leagues while the NBA tier players run rampant.

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