Message from @pratel

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2018-07-17 06:13:58 UTC  

But my guess is that they aren't going to want to invest resources when there's other ways to push narratives and sell ads.

2018-07-17 06:14:23 UTC  

So my guess is that this ends up in a grey state where it's plausible but essentially unconfirmable either way.

2018-07-17 06:14:44 UTC  

huh

2018-07-17 06:14:47 UTC  

fuck hillary

2018-07-17 06:15:12 UTC  

she ruined the democrat party

2018-07-17 06:15:18 UTC  

Honestly, I think it really reflects on the state of Journalism today.

2018-07-17 06:15:35 UTC  

Expect 100 op-eds no one is going to read pushing it out or trying to rebut it somehow.

2018-07-17 06:16:02 UTC  

And it won't even matter.

2018-07-17 06:16:40 UTC  

The papers sold their souls in the past couple years and the lines are so solid that no one actually cares anymore.

2018-07-17 06:17:29 UTC  

So many websites came up trying to be objective

2018-07-17 06:17:42 UTC  

As for why people might want Hillary as a speaker. She *did* run for president and is the first woman to do so. Universities like that kind of thing. Even if her speeches aren't worth paying attention to anyway.

2018-07-17 06:17:59 UTC  

They all gave up after realising no one wanted objective news

2018-07-17 06:18:10 UTC  

Objective news is boring, and makes people uncomfortable

2018-07-17 06:18:19 UTC  

No one wants to be uncomfortable

2018-07-17 06:18:34 UTC  

Yeah, I'm not going to say it's only the papers fault.

2018-07-17 06:18:45 UTC  

But there are some that I'd expect to hold a certain line.

2018-07-17 06:18:59 UTC  

Websites like fusion, vice and mother goose became propoganda because propoganda sells

2018-07-17 06:19:23 UTC  

The few websites I trust are The Knife and Newsline

2018-07-17 06:19:34 UTC  

But they tend to a certain level of hyperbole.

I stick to financial papers at this point (CNBC, WSJ, etc). They're not especially objective either, but they do try and prevent their subscribers from losing money reporting falsehoods.

2018-07-17 06:19:52 UTC  

The Knife is the closest thing to objective news as of now

2018-07-17 06:19:53 UTC  

The Knife seems good, but I haven't read too much from there.

2018-07-17 06:20:23 UTC  

Increasingly, I think the reality is that the reality is that you might have to pay for high quality news for applications or acept you'll need to read 3 different papers for a good viewpoint.

2018-07-17 06:20:34 UTC  

And realize where the actual biases tend to lie.

2018-07-17 06:21:00 UTC  

That might be better than a single consolidated source that's lying about being objective though.

2018-07-17 06:21:18 UTC  

Read CNN, Breitbart, and Washington Post, only believe what is common across all three

2018-07-17 06:21:28 UTC  

That works pretty well for me

2018-07-17 06:21:48 UTC  

I'd replace CNN with something else, TBH. They really went under in the past year or so.

2018-07-17 06:21:54 UTC  

The knife is basically that though

2018-07-17 06:22:07 UTC  

They take news stories, see what's common and post the facts

2018-07-17 06:22:18 UTC  

But it's a better idea to do it yourself

2018-07-17 06:22:29 UTC  

Not sure what I'd replace it with. I'm partial to WSJ , but that's subscription and leans right. NYTimes is actually not as bad as some people think, but it is atleast as left as WSJ.

2018-07-17 06:22:33 UTC  

is right

2018-07-17 06:22:38 UTC  

I approve of the 'read many sources' method

2018-07-17 06:22:50 UTC  

The problem is that it's a pain in the ***

2018-07-17 06:22:53 UTC  

But i wouldnt use any of those three listed, maybe washington post sometimes.

2018-07-17 06:23:00 UTC  

CNN is bad on some stuff, but usually they do get things right atleast partially

2018-07-17 06:23:07 UTC  

Same for Breitbart

2018-07-17 06:23:14 UTC  

Breitbart is weird.

2018-07-17 06:23:17 UTC  

Just absorb what is common

2018-07-17 06:23:18 UTC  

CNN is a good place to find a story, but its usually not a good place to read into it

2018-07-17 06:24:31 UTC  

The funny story is that it often doesn't even matter.