This paper is dated November 2020, but I don't think anything has changed. In the past 48 hours, the local paper ran a story about everybody needing a third booster shot, a story about all the things it's still not safe to do if you're fully vaccinated, and finally a story that the city was immediately moving to full general eligibility because vaccine providers couldn't fill appointments. Nowhere did they provide links to any of the providers with open slots. You had to work that out for yourself.
Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?
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#13CNN Technical director told us as much - Money & power. https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-2-cnn-director-char...
A bias source with an axe to grind and a history of deceptive editing
That's a straw man argument. I wont necessarily dispute the axe to grind, but can you provide proof when "deceptive editing" occurred?
Currently Project Veritas is in multiple lawsuits disputing that claim.
Most recently, in Project Veritas vs New York Times, the NYT claimed their articles contain journalistic "opinions" without notifying readers. Meaning they made claims they can't back up:
https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/maEy58HDFCR7qdtFOb...
I don't think it's fair to dismiss the content of their videos out of hand. While I disagree with the tactics, this is essentially undercover journalism and you can hear longs stretches of the CNN technical director discussing the mood / methods on set.
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#14To be fair, most "news" of any sort on any topic is bad news.
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#15Why stop at COVID? If you watch the news you probably think that America is either becoming a communist country or about to be overrun by fascists.
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#16The old news catechism applies:
Bad news is good news.
Good news in no news.
No news is bad news.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bias source with an axe to grind and a history of deceptive editing
That's a straw man argument. I wont necessarily dispute the axe to grind, but can you provide proof when "deceptive editing" occurred? Currently Project Veritas is in multiple lawsuits disputing that claim. Most recently, in Project Veritas vs New York Times, the NYT claimed their articles contain journalistic "opinions" without notifying readers. Meaning they made claims they can't back up: https://assets.ctfassets.…
> but can you provide proof when "deceptive editing" occurred?
The Wikipedia page has plenty of examples and sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#Content
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bias source with an axe to grind and a history of deceptive editing
That's a straw man argument. I wont necessarily dispute the axe to grind, but can you provide proof when "deceptive editing" occurred? Currently Project Veritas is in multiple lawsuits disputing that claim. Most recently, in Project Veritas vs New York Times, the NYT claimed their articles contain journalistic "opinions" without notifying readers. Meaning they made claims they can't back up: https://assets.ctfassets.…
Their wikipedia has a long list of incidents that I won't relist but it's not a straw man to discuss the credibility of a source.
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#19To be fair, most "news" of any sort on any topic is bad news.
We generally measure the success of news by user engagement, and bad news is often more emotional and engaging.
Perhaps a better metric would be the information content, but that's difficult to measure and most people probably don't care.
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#20CNN Technical director told us as much - Money & power. https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-2-cnn-director-char...
Project Veritas has a history of being so wildly deceitful[1] that if they said the sky was blue, I'd want to look outside to check myself first before I believed them.