JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
@Strandjunker but if the truth doesn’t support a certain viewpoint, it becomes “fake news” or (shudder) “mainstream media”. In this sort of culture, career longevity requires journalists to throw *all* views at a wall and see what sticks… It’s not like the audience will reward you for any greater effort anyway!
@the_observant@Strandjunker Well, the stuff that sticks tends to be some sort of gunk or just plain old feces. Which... actually does describe a lot of stuff getting published nowadays pretty accurately, now that I think about it.