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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe media is one giant clusterfu#k.
This whole week has been one giant catastrophe for the media.
Can we get CNN to call it early yet?
Journalism is DEAD.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)MOTRDemocrat
(87 posts)It's like a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Journalism has become conjecture and opinion rather than factual information.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I turned off my TV.
It's a joke.
freeridemro
(9 posts)Not getting a story right
napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)Stories often break first on sites that are FILLED with BS. Weirdo sites that publish anything. Why? Because nobody really knows what happened, until they've put together all the pieces. Only in a setting where speculation can pass as fact do the facts appear first, because at first the facts are always speculative, unconfirmed.
So in the game of the scoop, where having the info first is prime concern, certainly of the facts falls by the wayside...it must, that's the law. Where accuracy of the information is prime, it takes time to piece together the picture with great certainty, and in many cases if you rely on sources that do this you find out last.
So we as consumers must decide which is important to us. Possibly correct facts now, or certainly correct facts later.
I for one like the possibly correct facts now, I can deal with them getting wrong for a bit.