Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by mtgx on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:27PM
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I would say The Intercept is pretty "neutral" - but less in the "we don't take anyone's or anything's side, ever" (a mantra the NYT also abandoned in 2012, because it found it lacking - like with climate change, etc) sense, and more in the "holding government (whichever it may be) accountable for wrongdoing" sense, which I think is the original purpose of the media (or at least the purpose most democracies attribute to the media, even if that's not true in many cases anymore).
I thought this article described rather well the main problem with the media today and how it could get back on the right path:
The mainstream media is just as responsible for the rise of fake news as anything else, if not more so. If it didn't give people a reason to distrust it as acting not out of principle, but out of love for a certain faction of the government, perhaps fake news wouldn't be such an issue today, because most people would keep reading the same mainstream press, knowing they can trust it.
Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by gertef on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:20PM
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The Intercepts' bias is in unfair credibility-undermining attacks. Being anti-everything is a cute gimmick, but not great news. It's still narrative-first, not evidence-first.
I thought this article described rather well the main problem with the media today and how it could get back on the right path:
https://popehat.com/2016/12/15/deserving-trust/
The mainstream media is just as responsible for the rise of fake news as anything else, if not more so. If it didn't give people a reason to distrust it as acting not out of principle, but out of love for a certain faction of the government, perhaps fake news wouldn't be such an issue today, because most people would keep reading the same mainstream press, knowing they can trust it.