Re:Stop Watching the News (2019)
by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:48PM
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Yes. About a quarter of the time I hear about some public outrage, I've definitively concluded that it's misinformed. It's possible there's selection bias in which outrages I hear about, but I don't have a strong reason to expect that.
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Re:Stop Watching the News (2019)
by TulliusCicero on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:02PM
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I think we're applying different standards here. Judging from your comments on the recent outrage over delivery apps, I'm guessing you'd use that as an example of substantially misreported/inaccurate outrage news?
Re:Stop Watching the News (2019)
by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:07PM
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I guess I was implicitly focusing on outrages targeting specific named people. I wouldn't say the stories about delivery apps are misreported, and agree that news on that kind of thing is much less likely to be just completely false.