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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by specialist on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:54PM (#12740378)
Journalists attempt to tell the truth, gets second sources, endures fact checking, and correct any mistakes made.

Pundits are just loud mouths. Truthiness is irrelevant.

Propagandists knowingly lie, distort, omit, whatever.

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by ams6110 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:07PM (#12740447)
Journalists also focus on facts - who, what, when - and avoid bias. Something that we've seen has gone out the window at what used to be legitimate news sources.

I have no problem with opinion pieces or punditry, but don't try to disguise it as journalism.

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