Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del...
by anonymouskimmer on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:15PM
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> the journalists would have to be experts in the respective field, or would at the very least have to possess enough of an understanding to make these judgements.
This is why journalists will often attribute cause and effect interpretation of facts to expert sources.
The question when becomes whether there is any value in publishing these most likely faulty narratives compared to simply reporting the facts. I would argue that there is actually negative value in the former, because the audience ends up less informed than if they had never consumed that piece of media.