Re:Former reporter creates ‘Rate my Professor’ for newsrooms
by ddingus on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:14PM
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I am serious too. Actually being somewhat informed takes some work. Distributing that among friends, trusted peers helps. And doing it this human way is timeless, effective too.
I have a set of these running with people all over the world.
Forums, discord, Reddit, other places. The phone! Something happens, and I know who is gonna call. They want to talk all about it. What do we know, what can we infer, what might it mean?
Those are the best!
We all look at what was published, then discuss.
Some groups are focused too, sometimes doing research, timelines...
The value in those circles is huge, some cultivated over years. I know where I can go for a question, others know they can come to me. Each of us has domain knowledge, or experience, or cares enough to be valuable.
You could just use TYT, and contrast that with a few major newspapers and networks.
Talking with a diverse set of others, who will do that to seek being better informed really does help. Not everyone can though.
As for "not bringing politics into it", sadly everything is political.
Pure tech and science has the very least, but it is still there.
Even getting the info is political as you have seen.
No easy outs on this, also sadly.
I feel your frustration. I dealt with it two decades ago in this way. I have much less of it now.
The hard truth of it is most of the time when people are looking for who to just trust, that trust gets abused.
Eventually, they resign to avoiding the lot of it, and doing that is OK do not get me wrong here, or they seek peers for that need in their life.
Politically savvy people tend to trend social, but they also can understand people who are not.
Make a few friends. You know stuff. They may not. Trade for mutual enlightenment. No joke.
That is how I got started. Tech issues, copyright, etc... I could fill in blanks, and did. They could take current events and boil that down into a useful discussion.
I love most of those people and would miss those conversations terribly.
Edit: One other thing: I definitely do not agree with the politics all my conversation partners hold, nor they mine. That is OK. We are all good minded humans looking to make sense of things, maybe act when we need to, or understand we really do have common cause.
Being wrong or different is not a big deal. Unless it is. In most of my circles, it isn't. Group knowledge has info in it that individual knowledge does not.
Can't get it unless we actually talk about stuff.
That is all I got man. If it does not help, no worries.
I have a set of these running with people all over the world.
Forums, discord, Reddit, other places. The phone! Something happens, and I know who is gonna call. They want to talk all about it. What do we know, what can we infer, what might it mean?
Those are the best!
We all look at what was published, then discuss.
Some groups are focused too, sometimes doing research, timelines...
The value in those circles is huge, some cultivated over years. I know where I can go for a question, others know they can come to me. Each of us has domain knowledge, or experience, or cares enough to be valuable.
You could just use TYT, and contrast that with a few major newspapers and networks.
Talking with a diverse set of others, who will do that to seek being better informed really does help. Not everyone can though.
As for "not bringing politics into it", sadly everything is political.
Pure tech and science has the very least, but it is still there.
Even getting the info is political as you have seen.
No easy outs on this, also sadly.
I feel your frustration. I dealt with it two decades ago in this way. I have much less of it now.
The hard truth of it is most of the time when people are looking for who to just trust, that trust gets abused.
Eventually, they resign to avoiding the lot of it, and doing that is OK do not get me wrong here, or they seek peers for that need in their life.
Politically savvy people tend to trend social, but they also can understand people who are not.
Make a few friends. You know stuff. They may not. Trade for mutual enlightenment. No joke.
That is how I got started. Tech issues, copyright, etc... I could fill in blanks, and did. They could take current events and boil that down into a useful discussion.
I love most of those people and would miss those conversations terribly.
Edit: One other thing: I definitely do not agree with the politics all my conversation partners hold, nor they mine. That is OK. We are all good minded humans looking to make sense of things, maybe act when we need to, or understand we really do have common cause.
Being wrong or different is not a big deal. Unless it is. In most of my circles, it isn't. Group knowledge has info in it that individual knowledge does not.
Can't get it unless we actually talk about stuff.
That is all I got man. If it does not help, no worries.