Those are good questions.

But there aren't any good answers.

I mean, how do you KNOW I'm more reliable? Not an opinion, or a hunch, or a guess. But how do you KNOW?

You don't. You can't.

Hell, for all you know, I could be working for the Kremlin.

1/ https://twitter.com/TheBigDS3/status/1305170741588041729

Profit driven journalism isn't perfect, obviously. And it's currently struggling to adapt to the Information Age where EVERYBODY has become an information source.

But, journalism -- depending on the organization -- does have editorial standards.

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Can media be better? Sure? Obviously.

But this idea that if they just published "fact" and "truth" and somehow the consumer would arrive at the correct worldview as a result is utterly hilarious to me.

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I was an Intelligence Officer. You have NO idea how many times I did just that. Present only fact and the truth to the best of my abilities, only to watch consumers spin that into any sort of bullshit. See Iraq et al.

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The truth of the matter is that you don't WANT just "fact" and "truth."

You WANT opinion. You WANT analysis. You WANT interpretation.

And a trained journalist is the person to provide view.

Again, can they do better? Sure.

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But mostly we're just mad that the "media" doesn't just tell us only what we think is important in a manner that we want to hear.

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