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Posted by: Hoggs Bison
Posted by: Astinous
Posted by: Hoggs Bison
Posted by: Astinous
They get paid to report stuff, so they report stuff.
As opposed to that one professional news agency with global reach and numerous sources that does it all for free.
You know who I'd listen to? WikiLeaks. Yet you bastards will most definitely laugh at me formthis, in spite of its reputation.
Why would anyone laugh at you? It's pure information, the same kind of thing news agencies pull up to analyze and report on. A lot of them used info from WikiLeaks to talk about how strained relations between diplomats are, for example, and how they often talk behind each others' backs. I think some people had to apologize to each other lol.
Anyway, there's plenty of spin you can put on what would otherwise seem like vanilla reporting. You can tell the truth, but not the whole truth, which can make a story seem completely different. You can use only sources that support the point you're making, or only look at sets of data that support you. Data in particular is easy to "manipulate" because there's just so much of it. Two people on opposite sides of the gun control issue can use just statistics and still make completely different points. What do you look at? What period of time? What population?
I want truth. News Sites have to give truth.
Truth's been attained. I've been satiated. Simple as that.