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The rise of independent online journalists has completely ruined the mainstream media because it's now trivially easy to spread contradictory evidence to their claims.
See, I agree, but this is a double edged sword.
When every journalist and "journalist" with a youtube channel is considered to be on par with proper journalists, then that's also how misinformation spreads.
While I agree that mainstream news has failed us of late*, the answer is not to just assume they're lying and believe the independent guy, that's how you get people believing an election was stolen when it wasn't.
\Note: Somewhat off topic, but it's important to say...*
I'm not sure whether to blame the media or blame the viewer. Honest news doesn't get views.
We as a population want our biases confirmed, we want inflammatory clickbait and we want to be outraged.
If people genuinely wanted boring, fact based news....it exists. But people don't want that. Newspapers are dying, local journalism is dying, fact-based news isn't getting views....so who is at fault?
Particularly well said on the second point, but agreed on both.
I honestly don't know what the answer is...
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I mean, I think the question is how low our standards have gotten that we're not offended by this kind of thing anymore.
While I agree that the news coverage felt off, I had to ask myself....shouldn't that be offensive?
I think that it should.