Great rundown of MSM hacks who got it wrong or lied about the steele dossier
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Here's an interesting article I just saw on the fact-gathering process. This is talking about the implications for scientific research, but it seems as applicable to journalism or even message board discussion.
I’m not sure the significance of that, in any case it describes the results of an interesting study into the scientific process where the same processes reach different conclusions.
Interesting read. All professions bring their prejudices and preconceived notions to the table for any task - I could give an engineering (presumably fact and logic driven) project to 10 different engineers and get back 10 differing designs just from their preferences and experiences that weigh differently for each
Regarding journalism, I wish they would stay with the ”who, what, where, when how and why”.... but again, their prejudices affect how they put together a story to unfortunately spin it towards their own slant..... and to often they omit facts to not stray from their narrative. True journalism allows the reader to generate their own conclusion - otherwise you potentially get propaganda
Some of the most interesting and moving journalistic stories I find are the ones in which the journalist admits he began with a premise, but the facts as he investigated changed his premise and opinion....it’s becoming a relatively rare, and even brave, occurrence for someone to let all the facts tell the story (or the research) instead of the story and research being generated looking for facts to underpin it
She, Mollie Hemmingway and Rush are my trusted sources for political and media analysis.
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