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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Which is exactly why I framed the answer to the question the way I did. Focus on those that dedicate themselves to complying with journalistic integrity and practices, that do their best to provide balance and validate their information through multiple sources. News is fact-based and not opinion based. Too many people conflate the two and think opinion is factual and news. It is NOT. It is why I referenced who I did and made sure to point toward Columbia Journalism Review as a starting point. They have documented and maintain the gold standard for journalistic practices/behaviors for decades.
Fantastic advice, but you're making a false equivalency here, suggesting that both sides provide the same level of fact-finding and verification. You also fail to mention that many sources in the RW mediasphere do not have investigative or research organs of their own and instead rely of repacking the work of others or applying commentary to work done by others. Media literacy plays a big role in "finding a balance between the two".
We do see that a lot, especially stuff that comes from social media. Anytime you are consuming information through a "feed" you are leaving yourself open to manipulation through the algorithm. The "feed" is packaged to your preselected likes and wants. To get out of this trap, stop relying on "feeds" and go find the reporting yourself, from multiple trusted sources. Taking information from a "social media feed" is the ultimate in intellectual laziness and exactly why our society is dumbing down to disturbing levels.
Shooting the messenger can also be just calling out bull#### when its posted. If you're posting information from a source that just weeks ago you would have jumped all over as being a disinformation agent, then you've fallen into a confirmation bias trap. Worthy of being called out IMO.
Did you get that from your social media feed?  |
Not much a disagree with here.
I don't use social media for news at all (except CP) and hate Twitter/X.
People getting stuck in their algorithms is a massive problem and news becomes self fulfilling to what you already believe; which is what I was stating.
A lot of people aren't actually looking for news anymore, they're looking for ammo to backup the arguments they want to win online. Social media culture at play.