Re:Friends are not a representative sample of public opinion
by screye on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:37PM
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Often worse informed.
I love that you mentioned those 3 professions. You've accurately pointed out 3 professions whose workers are often misinformed about their profession. Not the observations, but the resulting conclusions and solutions are often misinformed.
Journalists are the worst of the lot. For the rare honest ones, it's hard enough to be the carrier pigeon for truth as is. Buy, take their willing alignment to underlying agendas, and things are already looking bad for the profession.
It's exacerbated by journalists never stepping foot in these foreign nations, and when they do, they're guided by one clearly biased party who shows who shows them around. So now their observations are misinformed as well.
I love that you mentioned those 3 professions. You've accurately pointed out 3 professions whose workers are often misinformed about their profession. Not the observations, but the resulting conclusions and solutions are often misinformed.
Journalists are the worst of the lot. For the rare honest ones, it's hard enough to be the carrier pigeon for truth as is. Buy, take their willing alignment to underlying agendas, and things are already looking bad for the profession.
It's exacerbated by journalists never stepping foot in these foreign nations, and when they do, they're guided by one clearly biased party who shows who shows them around. So now their observations are misinformed as well.
Gellman amnesia is real.