Comment by cqqxo4zV46cp
1 year ago
Although this is in the grand scheme of things hard to verify. Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation?
1 year ago
Although this is in the grand scheme of things hard to verify. Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation?
> Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation?
People who don't agree with what their coworkers are doing and want to be whistleblowers.
Getting those people to reach out to you is a huge part of investigative journalism.
>Getting those people to reach out to you is a huge part of investigative journalism.
Does that still exist? If you do investigative journalism maybe you win the admiration of the public. If you align with the powers that be, no nasty things happen to you and maybe you earn some money.
The world has already learned from doing this mistake. Despotism is bad and listening to the above is how you get there.
Yes, people with a strong sense of morality, interestingly (to the HN crowd), still do exist.
The people with power over the journalists' career and reputation are in this case the party they'd piss off by doing proper journalism. They're not gonna do it. It's indirectly the main reason why no one trusts journalists in general anymore. Nearly everything is consolidated under the same people and whatever isn't gets smeared and blacklisted.
>Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation?
Stranger things have been admitted to news organizations.
At the same time, people do make stuff up on the internet. I don't think its fair to treat unverified rumour as fact.
> I don't think its fair to treat unverified rumour as fact.
Virtually all information about the current conflict in the near east between Israel and Palestine might be considered "unverified rumor", whether the entity relaying the information is a state or a person with a camera. For better or worse, this is a standard of information we need to deal with.
Perhaps the idea of a "fact" is something that needs revisiting as a concept....
> Perhaps the idea of a "fact" is something that needs revisiting as a concept
The field of epistemology is ancient. The problem of what can be known and how we can know is even older. I don't think this conflict raises any fundamentally new questions on an epistemic level.
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Oh, you really need to read "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article-lookup/doi/10.1093...