Ok, sure. But I’ll also say this. I don’t know anyone who watches multiple news outlets. I also don’t know of any singular news source that’s accurate and unbiased.
What I found used to work for getting the bigger picture is going on reddit’s news subs.
Thousands of people, all posting from various sources, with a comments section that isn’t biased towards one direction (though they do lean more left historically, but not always).
Then I got banned from reddit by a bot that never made sense, as the comments I was banned for weren’t even controversial.
And Lemmy just doesn’t have the pure numbers to do that sort of thing. Which is sad, because being decentralized is the whole point here.
The end result is, I feel my news is incomplete, and often untrustworthy.
So yes, those people chose the wrong source for news. But at the same time, there really isn’t a decent singular source either.
You should check out GROUND News if you haven’t. Its a great way to a get an overview of all the various biases in different sources reporting on the same news.
No comment sections, but I’ve actually come to appreciate that
Simply because their media of choice never tells them about it… FIFY
Ok, sure. But I’ll also say this. I don’t know anyone who watches multiple news outlets. I also don’t know of any singular news source that’s accurate and unbiased.
What I found used to work for getting the bigger picture is going on reddit’s news subs.
Thousands of people, all posting from various sources, with a comments section that isn’t biased towards one direction (though they do lean more left historically, but not always).
Then I got banned from reddit by a bot that never made sense, as the comments I was banned for weren’t even controversial.
And Lemmy just doesn’t have the pure numbers to do that sort of thing. Which is sad, because being decentralized is the whole point here.
The end result is, I feel my news is incomplete, and often untrustworthy.
So yes, those people chose the wrong source for news. But at the same time, there really isn’t a decent singular source either.
You should check out GROUND News if you haven’t. Its a great way to a get an overview of all the various biases in different sources reporting on the same news.
No comment sections, but I’ve actually come to appreciate that
The ONLY way to make sense of the world is to see the news stories from as many perspectives as possible, and to make our own judgments.
Every media outlet has ulterior motives, Even and ESPECIALLY the ones that say things I agree with
But boomers and the ignorant all believe that news media is reliable as long as what they are saying sounds good
This is such a bad idea it was even condemned in the Bible
every media outlet sanewashed trump every fuckdamn day, yes fox and newsmax are cancer but don’t pretend that it is exclusive to them
Rich old conservative men own the media now, it all caters to trump left or right