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Voline

@GreenFire

Would we have had 60 years of reporters treating the assertions of policemen as gospel if they weren't candy asses who went from suburban high school to college to newsroom? I doubt it.

7 Nov 2022 at 2:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on anticapitalist.party
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KBLeecaster ✅

@Voline
In journalism school I think they may teach that counterfactuals are not evidence of anything, but idk.

7 Nov 2022 at 2:29 | Open on climatejustice.social
Voline

@GreenFire

I would have more faith in the ability of J-school graduates to evaluate evidence if thousands of them hadn’t tried to sell the public absolutely transparent lies about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and relations with Al Queda.

7 Nov 2022 at 3:15 | Open on anticapitalist.party
KBLeecaster ✅

@Voline
I personally don't think that you are giving the national security apparatus enough credit in your denunciation of the journalism trade there. I certainly see many shortcomings in the news industry though I wouldn't go so far as to call every major organization fake news. As always the "truth" is written between the line so you've got to read a lot of lines to get it I suppose.

Heck as a longtime climate activist I have seen the media fail miserably, but no one's perfect. I think that they still provide a valuable service personally. The Tucker Carlson types' service is valuable too. Just that it is valuable to my mortal foes so I'm not a fan.

@Voline
I personally don't think that you are giving the national security apparatus enough credit in your denunciation of the journalism trade there. I certainly see many shortcomings in the news industry though I wouldn't go so far as to call every major organization fake news. As always the "truth" is written between the line so you've got to read a lot of lines to get it I suppose.

7 Nov 2022 at 3:28 | Open on climatejustice.social
Voline

@GreenFire

Not all. The McClatchy newspapers were conspicuous in the skepticism and quality of their coverage of the drive to war. The fact that they were able to present so much evidence contrary to the Bushites assertions, evidence that was excluded from the majority of respectable news outlets, gives the lie to the excuse that the poor reporters were taken in by the security state.

7 Nov 2022 at 3:50 | Open on anticapitalist.party
Voline

@GreenFire

They were either fools, incompetents, or opportunists none of which speaks well of the value of J-school training.

7 Nov 2022 at 3:50 | Open on anticapitalist.party
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