I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    1 year ago

    He’s persona non grata these days, but the old quote from Scott Adams applies here:

    “I read a newspaper article about something I know very well—my own field—and it was so full of errors that I had to wonder how many errors there were in other articles on topics I didn’t know much about.”

    If they’re getting an important detail like this so mindblowingly wrong, what else are they getting wrong?

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      Journalists are not educated in anything except how to write. And they go and write about everything, aiming for an audience that is dumber than them. On top of all that journalism is an industry in contraction. Even the good journalists are paid as badly as teachers and they work under great pressure. Many of them are addicted to watching their click stats and not much better than a meatspace Facebook algorithm on legs. Is it any mystery how the end result is crap?

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        1 year ago

        It’s used to be they’d say least ask questions from people who know. Now I feel like they only make half assed attempts to Google something.

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          What’s left of them are writing 6 stories a day, every day, so no, there’s no time left for the old due diligence.