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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by pmoleri on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:03AM (#19399273)
I don't think that blindly trusting wikipedia is nearly as bad as blindly trusting media. Wikipedia, while not perfect, has a way to moderate itself. Media needs to deliver fresh and high impact news, this ends up being an incentive to replicate news from other media without fact checking or a minimum analysis. IMO while money can influence any of them, the incentives for poor content quality in media are worse.
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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by CM30 on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:32PM (#19405594)
100% agreed with this. The 24 hour news cycle, the obsession with trends, the need for social media shares and the focus on 'get it out quick' over 'research the story well' has annihilated the quality of the media in general, and is responsible for about 80% of the problems facing journalism today.
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