Message from @Cobra Commander
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That is true, especially in recent years a number of journals has been extremely shotty
man if you really think journalists "generally make stats up on the spot" i feel like you're in fairytale conspiracy land...
and i have nothing wrong with conspiracies
News papers ignoring the firing of rubber bullets into the eyes and throats of yellow vesters being an international example
just a subset of them are very much fairytales
yea but thats omission dude
its not "making stats up"
lie by omission
Covington and Amazonian Forest Fires being another 2
Hmm
Whats a fourth, I may have to actually think about that one for a second
journalist manipulation is rarely about making up statistics, its usually lie by omission or citing dodgy sources
Gender Neutral Santa Clause
"russiagate"
OH YEAH
Russiagate
Hmm
brother i dont follow mainstream media because of things like that
Pizzagate too
but that doesnt mean statistics are made up generally
I read an article doomsaying climate disaster by 2023 which didn't even cite a source
soup said they generally make up stats
Another one that actually used a study performed by somebody without a degree or employer who constructed a faulty model from incomplete climate data
*well I'm saying that at least
ye
I'm not saying they "generally make up stats" I'm saying that you can't rely on them to use stats
Soup Can SamToday at 12:35 PM
Honestly they generally do
"manipulate other people's studies to show things they want to show"
That is what I was responding to
Not making up stats
ah okay
being manipulative or simply not putting in due diligence to source a story
thats why i like independent media
far more hyperlinks to sources
I generally prefer it as well
whereas mainstream media go "study says" without linking the study
Yeah
I usually just look at mainstream media to get what some of the perspective on an issue are, but not information on the actual issue itself
Independend journalists are good
*sometime*