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February 22, 2014
Disturbing Reasons Not to Trust the News (From a Reporter)
#1. Respected Journalists Are Often Shills: Journalists have to cope with a lot: dwindling budgets, shrinking salaries, the defenestration of fact checking, agenda-driven reports from think tanks, corporate "crisis" teams deliberately making their lives harder -- no problem. The need for a bullshit filter is right there in the job description, just under "cool hat." But some writers end up bypassing their own filter for political point-scoring or cash. Even lauded New York Times best-seller Malcolm Gladwell got his start suckling at the teat of big business.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 22, 2014 10:36 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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