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I have never felt this personally betrayed by the press holy fucking shit
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I want to believe what gets published, because theyre the most reliable source of news I will probably get anywhere. unfortunately, most reliable apparently does not equal entirely reliable, as ive realized the past two days.
thats not to say I dont understand why it happens. ive taken journalism two years in college, which told me enough about why this kind of shit exists. you need to write an article about this thing, and its gotta be ready in two hours, and you better make sure its ready then or fucking else. theres a blatant lack of quality because the writers and creators oftentimes dont even get the time to fact check whatever theyre writing or copying. after going through the coverage from yesterday, I noticed that the journalists did read their sources, but not nearly thoroughly enough, resulting in errors.
its something that I hate to see happen, and I know that its only going to deteriorate at this rate.
(note that this rant only applies to whatever news sources ive checked the past few days. im very aware that some news stations only really care about bias and feeding controversy, but I refuse to call that journalism. so what I just wrote does not in the slightest apply to those.)