Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
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Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#2Highly relevant:
https://AstralCodexTen.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-...
Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#3Yes --- and the biggest offenders are the ones who regularly complain about it.
Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#4Because, to first approximation, this is true. Every organization, every person has their own biases and agenda. I'm not sure why Americans believe that objectivity in news reporting is even possible. Other countries don't seem to have as much of an issue with this, since you typically have news sources that are either owned directly by the government or are published by political parties.
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#5Half of Americans now believe the news organizations
Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#6I mean, talk about delusions --believing your lies so much you don't believe you're lying or believing it's necessary because people are too stupid to figure things out for themselves.
They want to be able to set agendas but also want to be known as authoritative and uhhh unbiased. Both cannot be true simultaneously. Cry me a river!
Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#7Optimistic news - elevated degree of skepticism of any 'produced information' is fully justified, seeing as news organisations are driven certainly by commercial agenda, and frequently also by political agenda which they are - as a rule - far from being transparent with. We need citizen and independent journalism, and better yet, trust in our own direct lived experience, to balance out of 'information diet'
Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#8The problem is that people look at some (relatively rare) media lie, decide mainstream media aren't trustworthy and go to "alternative" media that lie all the time.
Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#9Yes --- and the biggest offenders are the ones who regularly complain about it.
Citation needed.
Re: Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
#10Highly relevant: https://AstralCodexTen.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-...
> The point is: the media rarely lies explicitly and directly. Reporters rarely say specific things they know to be false. When the media misinforms people, it does so by misinterpreting things, excluding context, or signal-boosting some events while ignoring others, not by participating in some bright-line category called “misinformation”.
I don't think it's true (why would it be), and even it is true, it is stupid to assume that it is true. It only can cause harm, but no benefits at all.