• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Fucking ridiculous. We need to start teaching media literacy in schools.

    Rule number one is: Journalists should not be influencing your opinion. A statement like that from someone claiming to be a journalist should wipe everything they just said from serious consideration.

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      5 months ago

      They get around it by not classifying their talking heads as journalist when they get heat on them.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah. We need better rules about identifying news vs opinions and entertainment.

        Sure they can say that in court, but their audiences don’t hear that.