Comment by serf
1 year ago
fine, but applying that method to journalism will essentially run you out of trustworthy sources to gather news and information from the very same day.
1 year ago
fine, but applying that method to journalism will essentially run you out of trustworthy sources to gather news and information from the very same day.
Not at all.
For one, it's a continuum, not a binary thing.
Second, for topics I care about, I look at multiple outlets and/or their reported sources so that I can hopefully isolate the facts and form my own opinion.
And yes, for each outlet I weigh their reporting by how much emotionally charged language they use. Or in this case, whether they shoehorn something about trans people into an article about RAM in addition to the other emotionally charged language.