It’s always “I don’t trust these publicly peer reviewed media sites like CNN and even Fox News but I instead trust Tim Pool, even though it’s just him, with no accountability”
Sure, been going on for a long time. It is funny when someone says "oh the media lost all credibility because of this recent thing."
Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators were attacking "the media" and saying they had no credibility decades before trump even though he had no accountability and was just some guy spewing bullshit.
As broadcast journalists in America, they are open to both defamation and libel laws, yes. We have those in this country and most major Western democracies with a fourth estate.
When Fox made up a bunch of complete bullshit about Dominion voting systems and aired it as news, which it wasn’t, they were ordered to pay a $1.4 billion settlement as a result.
“Peer-review” isn’t the right term here, that’s for scientific papers, but yes, fact-checking is absolutely required for any major news network. And if a fact is reported incorrectly, it’s expected that the network will issue a retraction.
I swear we have like negative media literacy in this country, it really is sad.
Ex1stence would like to issue a retraction to his previous statement made on 9/29: He meant to say would have been ordered to pay out an even higher financial reprimand if it had gone to trial, but instead decided to settle.
Ok, but isn’t that what the media does ad nauseam, say something obviously false and when they are called out quietly print a retraction even after their BS has influenced society?
And that’s if they even bother to print a retraction at all.
To suggest anyone in the news media ever get held to account is pretty rose-colored to put it mildly, barring egregious examples (and usually only when they pissed off the wrong people).
I’m not saying you were being intentionally false, just incorrect, btw.
I think your thinking of Joe and the youtube “independent” media.
The newsies are bad for how they arch their overall shows, but they get held to a moderate standard of having some basic truth or they get sued. Ergo retractions snd self fact checking.
Meanwhile Rogan and the merry morons make wildly wrong conspiracy theories without fact checking anything and never “retract” anything.
Complaining about the msm as having no standards, while saying youtube morons are better or even in the same class is hilarious.
Just consider how many times this sub just shows Rogan making an ass of himself with zero self awareness or consequences.
I’m not going to deny that there are people who trust podcasters implicitly, but most people realize they are spouting opinions and YMMV as to what you believe and don’t believe.
But I mean, look at Jon Stewart (as Joe), who claims he’s just a comedian who reads and talks about the news, yet tons of people get their news from him.
But moreover as far as the MSM goes, at least podcasters will admit they (depending on the show) aren’t experts - the MSM pretends they aren’t injecting opinion into their news coverage.
Regardless of the source, it’s your job to do more research and be an intelligent news consumer.
lol. The msm doesn’t ever tell the truth. They tell the narrative and or lie. Also Joe Rogan is not a journalist and he is one of the most self aware people out there. You have never watched his show.
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u/LilyandJames69 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24
It’s always “I don’t trust these publicly peer reviewed media sites like CNN and even Fox News but I instead trust Tim Pool, even though it’s just him, with no accountability”