Journalism has to quickly evolve away from "You weren't there so here's a video" and "here's both sides" TO "here are facts as best we can".
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There's no shortage of "here's what's happened." Focusing on that is fighting the last war: scarcity of content. The need is the opposite.
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Yes, fact-checkers are often ignored but that means more fact-checking as central to the enterprise of journalism—its distinguishing mark.
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The "he said, she said" + "here are some partisan claims" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ part is not only harmful to democracy—we don't need paid media to do it.
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I mean this to apply across the political spectrum. Complacency towards facts is not a post-internet problem. But worse with the internet.
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Science is a great example of putting truth at the center of an enterprise. It's not perfect. We all can point to problems. Yet, it moves.
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Decades of assault on science—mostly because of its strengths & occasionally for its faults but beyond reasonable measure—is a disaster
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Now we have journalism being eaten by the logic of the partisan, fact-free media that—of course—do well in terms of clicks and views.
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We have to find a path to strengthen and center our institutions which focus evaluating claims & facts, and on teaching the process. aaargh
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Anti-intellectualism is not limited to a corner of the political spectrum. Slate's "higher-ed columnist" wrote this:pic.twitter.com/4fDsvSnJXG
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If anyone has the "Let's solve BIG problems" blues: fund teaching, evaluating & publicizing of claims of fact. Core to every other problem.
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The truth is learning to evaluate claims of fact can't just be taught as a "method". You also have to know lots of facts. Iterative process.
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