News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About the Media Rarely Lying. Parent comment

Re:Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About the Media Rarely Lying by ALittleLight on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:43PM (#34179103)
Legal issues aren't really the question. The Covington incident is an example of brazen lying by the media. They had the full video and chose to wildly misrepresent it. That they did so because they were reporting what someone else said is completely irrelevant. They knowingly lied and did so knowing they would be caught.

There is a reason the majority of the public distrusts the mainstream media. Mainstream media outlets are inveterate liars.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About the Media Rarely Lying by afiori on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:26AM (#34196241)
The article is not claiming that the media correctly informs people. Just that most articles contains mostly factually correct data.

Almost always it is an highly curated set of facts; often intentionally designed to mislead people.

The author is not pushing the idea that the media is honest, rather that the way we describe their dishonesty is inaccurate.

My personal interpretation is that as long as you say factually true things you are sort of protected both on defamation and ethics claims.

[ Parent | on HN ]