The rise and fall of the skills gap

Re:The rise and fall of the skills gap by partiallypro on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:08AM (#18853333)

What amazes me if that Vox has a show on Netflix that is supposed to explain things when their organization is notorious for getting basic things wrong. Look, everyone gets something wrong, but they sometimes do so with intent to mislead.

I'd say they are worse than Fox News. Fox News gets a lot wrong, yes, but also everyone knows their entire prime time lineup is opinion...Vox makes no such distinction. If you're pretending to be straight news but you're opinion...that's a big problem to me and worse than misleading commentary that you know is commentary.

I've seen Matt literally copy something straight from MMFA (a liberal news watcher) and Think Progress (a liberal think-tank) and treat it as news...not commentary.

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Re:The rise and fall of the skills gap by int_19h on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:23AM (#18853922)

Wait, who believes that Vox isn't opinion? Personally, I have always treated all their stuff as op-eds.

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Re:The rise and fall of the skills gap by partiallypro on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:43AM (#18856284)

Maybe the fact that they have a show on Netflix called "Explained" and Ezra, Matt, etc all list themselves as journalists.

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Re:The rise and fall of the skills gap by rhizome on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:50AM (#18854008)

I mean, it's kind of in the name.

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Re:The rise and fall of the skills gap by SlowRobotAhead on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:22AM (#18853697)

Agreed on Vox and Fox. The thing I find most stunning when people bring Fox up is they still think it’s 2008 it seems. Fox News isn’t bad, Fox Opinion isn’t good, but it’s more fair than it was... largely because GOP-Actual doesn’t like and didn’t want Trump.

I suppose it’s a bit funny to me that Vox articles often make it to the front page of HN, but FoxNews just don’t. But yea, Vox is worse.

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