Re:Elevating original reporting in Search
by specialist on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:08PM
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I empathically agree with your paras #2 and #3.
"any story you read is editorialized to some degree"
The opinion is the value add.
I used to read The Economist, because they challenged my views. I read Tyler Cowen today because I disagree with him and because he argues his case.
The rut we find popular discourse in today is caused by two things. The New Deal consensus we once had has not been replaced with a new consensus. The reluctance to distinguish between blather and discourse (debate).
Every time you read a report on a topic, mountains of facts are omitted for the sake of disseminating the points the authors and editors thought you should know to build your opinion. It is thus vital that you trust their judgment to do so in a way that's beneficial to you.
Knowing things is just really hard and we tend to fool ourselves into believing we know more than we do and that we can know more than is reasonable (yours truly included).