Scary: It's 'Newsworthy' That A Newspaper Prints Facts
from the what-has-the-world-become dept
It's really incredible how much "he said/she said" reporting is out there these days, where some (certainly not all) reporters seem to think it's their job to "report both sides of the story." Of course, there are all sorts of problems with that: a story may have a lot more than two sides (or perhaps one fewer). And, some of those sides might not be telling the truth. But some (again, not all) reporters act as though as long as they report what the different sides are saying, they have no obligation to point out when any of the parties are being less than truthful. At times, it gets even worse, when reporters just report one side of a story... and that one side isn't even close to truthful.The problem is that some have decided that "objective" reporting means not actually pointing out false statements. Unfortunately for those who believe that, it seems pretty clear that people like it when reporters actually call people on blatantly false statements, as they find that very useful. But it's still a pretty sad day when the fact that a newspaper has started fact-checking what politicians say is considered newsworthy. It shows just how far some newspapers have sunk. Equally amusing, of course, is the claim from one politician that such fact-checking represents "a new low," and that kind of thing belongs "on the editorial page." Calling someone out on a blatantly false statement is not editorial and doesn't belong just on the opinion pages. People look to news organizations to report the news, and that means highlighting the truth and calling out lies. Just because you point out that someone is not being truthful, it doesn't make it opinion or bias. It makes it useful.
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Second: Your view is simplistic, usually there are myriad sides to a story.
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Now answer this with yes or no:
"Are you still a cannibal?"
Remember, there are only two sides to any question. :p
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Three sides
"There's three sides to every story:
Yours and mine and the cold, hard truth"
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God Joe Walsh is awesome....
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Agree
Word.
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The function of a newspaper
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Servicey!
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the hardest hitting news show on the air..
....and thats pretty sad.
and thats also blatantly ripped off from the daily show.
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Indeed scary.
Basically he finds unacceptable that people go out and dig some facts that contradicts what he said.
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Scientists Should Be More Like Journalists
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Lost jobs in the EU music industry more than twice the EU population size
I guess this shows that the numbers are often so blown out of proportion that many journalists have stopped even trying think about what's reasonable and what's not.
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If 1.2B people out of (estimated by me) 4B people work in the music industry, then abut 30% of the world works in the music industry. Which is a blatant lie.
That number IS completely bogus.
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Hot News Rules!
That's what she said, and that's a scientific fact!
de-sarc
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