Sovereign writers and Substack

Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by Meekro on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:32PM (#26547441)

I'd like my journalists to be constrained by the truth, and paid editors in the context of a "traditional" newspaper are one possible way to achieve that. However, if you believe the stats on this, trust for traditional news sources is at record lows.

I personally don't trust traditional news sources very much. Therefore, I'm open to trying something different. I've been a happy subscriber to a handful of Substack journalists for a few months now. It's too soon to say whether this will be a lasting improvement, but it's hard to do worse than the mainstream media.

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Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by jimkleiber on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:55PM (#26548531)

I'm curious, as I tend to trust many of the large media outlets, especially the NYT and WaPo.

1) Which outlets do you consider to be the "mainstream media" or "traditional media"?

And 2) why don't you trust them?

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Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by Meekro on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:31PM (#26548927)

Rather than annoy the HN mods by derailing this conversation into politics, I can answer in detail to you directly. If you want that, could you update your bio on HN to include your email address?

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Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by jimkleiber on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:27PM (#26557617)

I appreciate that both for helping me keep it non-politics on HN and also for being willing to reach out.

I've updated my email in my bio, hope to hear from you soon.

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Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by GeekyBear on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:12AM (#26551028)

> why don't you trust them?

Have we already forgotten the NYT and WaPo pushing to get us into the Iraq War on false pretenses?

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Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by haberman on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:54PM (#26549589)

Glenn Greenwald gets into this a lot. As one recent example, WaPo misquoted Trump's comments on his infamous phone call with the Georgia secretary of state and this was not corrected until two months later when the Wall Street Journal obtained a recording of the call: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-media-outlets-so...

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Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by refurb on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:55AM (#26551276)

Indeed. Readers of WaPo should be outraged the paper took one source at their word when it came to statements from the President. Zero confirmation.

And it turns out it was all made up.

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