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Re:How U.S. media lost the trust of the public by chrischattin on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:38PM (#26616822)
This is my experience as well. If you've ever worked in a field that's reported on consistently, or a field you're an expert in, you'll see it is about 30% is accurate and 70% is completely made up. Many times it was like "I didn't say that" or "that didn't happen at all" while I was standing next to the person who wrote the story. The media in the US is in sorry shape. They definitely earned, and deserve, their place at the bottom of those 'most respected profession' surveys.

Now, extrapolate that to reporting on fields you aren't an expert in and form your thoughts accordingly.

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Re:How U.S. media lost the trust of the public by freebuju on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:18AM (#26617660)
Can also corroborate this. While working in the field for a news agency and sending in the news as an intern. Whenever any of the stories made the news, I was most times left with the same feeling. "This is not what I reported".

The newspaper's editors butchered the news. The facts were not accurate or had been watered down.

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Re:How U.S. media lost the trust of the public by donw on Sunday March 28, 2021 @10:12PM (#26617024)
Not sure why're you're being downvoted. The common name for this is Gell-Mann Amnesia[1], and is casually observable.

Pick any field where you would be considered by the layperson to be a subject-matter expert. Then, go and consume popular media -- news, movies, fiction -- related to that field. How accurate would you say they are?

Perhaps the downvoters would care to explain?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

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Re:How U.S. media lost the trust of the public by klibertp on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:56AM (#26620293)
FYI: you've been downvoted because you talk about downvotes, which is frowned upon here. Have you referenced the Gell-Mann effect only it would be ok. Also, don't worry about things "being downvoted": there are often large swings in up- and downvotes in the first few hours after posting. In most cases they even out and there's no need to go out of your way to support seemingly downvoted comment (unless you have something to add to the discussion, outside of discussing the voting).
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