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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by salawat on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:31PM (#25665229)
Not everyone knows how to check public records. I just signed up for PACER this year, and I'm still trying to work out how to access State and local court system's records since they're so distributed.

Like it or not, we haven't exactly done a great job at exposing primary sources to everyone. Until that can happen, media outlets who pay for boots on the ground will still have a degree of intutively granted credibility. Once everyone knows how to access it at will (and can be bothered to) we may see some better measurement on the reliabilitt of information sources.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by razius on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:31PM (#25674171)
Sadly I tend to believe that a very small minority of people will ever bother to access the documents, the rest will just believe whatever the media will tell them.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by salawat on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:33PM (#25680278)
I just got to the point this year where I finally got fed up with the level of editorial discretion taken with so many hot news takes. Makes me a real stick in the mud because I'm just not comfortable not seeing the primary doc anymore. I want to know what actually happened, not what someone thinks I should know about what happened.
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