1) This article says, basically, "yeah media sucks but they don't quite *lie*. They mislead and are biased but you can still usually trust them when they make totally perfectly 100% factual statements."
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2) I think, generally, the claim is correct.
Media might present biased narratives, frame things in misleading ways, and cite irrelevant facts to point towards their bias.
But they usually don't say things that are unambiguously false--just ambiguously false.
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3) One interesting thing has been watching how our counterparties behave.
Most of them also follow this rule--they might try to impact your opinion with stupid arguments but they usually won't say something that's 100% false.
But some don't follow this rule. Some just lie.
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and the order of news can have a deep psychologic impact...example: put news about crypto and after that some unrelated news about fraud ...
result: crypto fraud
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I'm sorry, but I'm not giving kudos to the media for reporting accurate play by play in obvious situations. Those aren't the stories that shape our thinking. People seek out journalists to understand what's going on. Intentionally deceptive journalism makes this difficult.
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I do understand there will be bias in almost everything, that's fine, but journalists especially should try to understand and mitigate that bias. I feel like there is no shame now to actually openly promote your bias on both sides. This is dangerous.
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CNN clipped out trump denouncing white supremacy and then pretended for over a year he never did it
they literally fabricate 100% BS realities for people to live in matrix style
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