To explain my “other” vote, coverage of national news by the MSM is a huge positive for the country and we would be a lot better off if the rest of us stopped with the media fragmentation and relied on them. They are the main institution more interested in accuracy than pushing an agenda.
I think the main evil that’s driving all this is the pro it motive and how profits are made by these media outlets. So much greater influence seems do be placed on clickbait of similar headlines and stories that manipulate our emotions to get clicks. This motive does not align with what most people think of as good journalism. That’s the main problem. Success has become purely about profit, but as we see profit does not necessarily have a positive correlation with good journalism so the signals are fucked up. One thing I’m hopeful about that might better align quality of journalism with profit is Patreon or similar services.
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Voted other because I don’t understand the choices
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I would never donate to them but I feel it has been beneficial and highly unlikely all their money came from democrats.
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Can we excise the loljournalists derail to the poor media choices thread?
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https://twitter.com/DelWilber/status/1316422291450998791
The comments on the O’Neill tweet are fun.
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We have a thread here with hundreds and hundreds of examples of press misconduct and it only touches on a small fraction of the cases.
I do not know of a single media source I trust at this point and have to vet and seriously consider if a given piece of reporting rings true to me.
It has not always been this laborious.
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Wait we’re arguing if stuff is true now? I doubt that was Riverman’s point.
I assume it was more along the lines of framing, amplifying stuff that shouldn’t be amplified, just being terrible in general. We can all agree on that right? I don’t think anyone’s claiming the NYT is just blatantly lying about stuff, right?
But you can’t just trust anything that comes from the NYT. You need to do due diligence on every single thing they report. This happens because they publish a lot of dogshit, as well as quality content.
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Goodby, family. I are going to shoot Ben Laden
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Yet another in a long line of anti-trump ads that if tweaked slightly would be a pro-trump ad.
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Not post-apocalyptic enough.
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That this is the level of political discourse in 2020 is hardly a bright spot.
That depends on whether you care about norms and democracy or you just care about dunking on Republicans. That tweeter seems to be the latter. Me? I just want to farm 
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Untrue for me for the NYT and most of journalism. I’ll go out on a limb and say any of us, even the people who think they agree with you, would find it trivially easy to go through all of the stories from any national or local journalism outlet for each day and quickly be overwhelmed by the vast amount of journalism that is so obviously well done and accurate that we don’t even acknowledge it.
If you’re referring to front page headlines, then okay, hyperbole deserved.
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And still, the next day right-wing twitter will be ENRAGED and Trump will be tweeting up a storm about the UNFAIR liberals planted in the audience and their gotcha questions.
Imagine if they pulled a swerve and linked up with ABC to turn it into a virtual debate.
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