Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by fastball on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:18PM (#23394175)

Which in turn was perhaps caused by "the news" going from being mostly journalists to mostly pundits with the rise of mass media.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by tehwebguy on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:22PM (#23394220)

Most news isn’t that, just cable news.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by ravenstine on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:32PM (#23394381)

It's interesting you say that, because most people feel one way or the other.

In my personal experience, even most written news is junk. It just seems like it's not junk because it uses intellectual language and doesn't feature a man in a suit speaking loudly. All news leaves out key details and editorializes.

But some people don't see it this way, and it's scary that we are this fractured because it's hard to reconcile. If two people are reading the news and come to dipolar conclusions, how do they come to an agreement? For the sake of argument, let's say that one perspective on the news is accurate, and the other is inaccurate; the chances that the more correct person will be able to persuade the person with the less accurate view seems close to nil.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by exclusiv on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:32PM (#23394373)

Where can you find credible, unbiased news coverage?

I've started watching foreign news coverage of the US. It seems better, but I can't yet tell how much; all news still love the sensational stuff.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by Pfhreak on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:39PM (#23394505)

There's no such thing as unbiased news coverage. Any news outlet has more stories to report than they have capacity to report. They must exhibit some bias to control for what they show. (Or, alternatively, I guess they could just randomly select news stories, but I don't think that'd be very compelling.)

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by fastball on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:21PM (#23395877)

Or they could only write about things they have thoroughly researched, not try to write about every event that happens, many of which they are just regurgitating from another source without any additional fact-checking or analysis anyway.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by macintux on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:28PM (#23395928)

Research, and presenting context for the news item, always means interpretation, and that leads to accusation of bias.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by Pfhreak on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:29PM (#23396523)

Ok, how do you select the things to research without bias?

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by chasd00 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:08PM (#23396333)

what i try to do is read the story from two sources that hate each other and try to take an average. Stay away from opinion and "analysis" pieces period.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by fastball on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:22PM (#23395884)

Most news is definitely not "journalism" either.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by viraptor on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:11PM (#23396357)

That's a big distinction I think. Also looking at who provides cheap and easy summaries vs raw information / deep investigation helps. Right now even if Unicorn riot is likely biased in many ways, I'll take them actually standing in the crowd doing a live stream for days than another source: https://unicornriot.ninja/

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