Watching libs finally turn against the New York Crimes like
They published a fake news story about Palestinians committing mass rape and had awful reporting on trans issues that was literally cited in transphobic laws, and they responded to criticism of that by publishing an op-ed titled “In Defense of JK Rowling.”
They have a long history of shit like that, lying and endangering vulnerable people in the process, but the trouble is, so do a lot of news outlets. It’s why it’s so important to investigate claims, trace sources, and think critically about information even when it’s coming from a seemingly trustworthy source.
Yeah, that’s a Blue Checkmark, that means the opposite of what it used to mean, I’m going to assume none of this happened, it’s not like any of these people can be held accountable for lying to get clicks.
When did the NYT turn Maga?
I can’t quite pin it down, but somewhere around Biden winning in 2020 and the insurrection in 2021. They must have realized that their dying medium could only survive on sensational reporting - and what better to help that than ever more Trumpian antics?
Huh. Funny i remember posting something about not believing shit you read in the NYT and getting thoroughly scoured for it and yettttt
It takes some time for some people to come around and figure things out for themselves.
I saw a small number of folks posting early on that Israel’s war on Gaza was a genocide and getting dragged HARD for it. I’ve lost count of how many people said I was an antisemite for being skeptical of Israel’s official news releases because “Israel was just defending itself”. Now Lemmy is majority pro-Palestine and recognizes the Palestinian genocide. Looks like a bunch of you were wrong…
Because people are absolutely idiots. Not a race thing… Most people of all colors and creeds seem incapable of going more than surface deep on anything. I don’t know when we dropped our critical thinking skills, but I know it will be the end of us. I think this is what Generations theory sort of predicts. We stop caring about facts, logic, etc. We just drive ourselves into hardship until things are so bad that we realize these things have value . That’s my Strauss-Howe pitch of th day. Welcome to the worst part of the seculum.
There are most likely more people now with sufficient critical skills than ever before as their existence is predicated on the opportunity for self education. The problem currently is that unbalanced aggregations of personal and corporate wealth are capable of yoking the zeitgeist to their ends so that most untethered minds are functionally insane when it comes to ‘political’ considerations. It may seem like there are less cognisant minds out there but the reality is that they are being drowned out more than ever by cynical manipulation.
It’s not about people being idiots, it’s about the NYT helping trump in any and every way possible.
Lots of 3rd parties are complicit. That’s why critical thinking and understanding conscious and unconscious bias is so important. Third parties with agenda are and always will be present. The trick is getting people to understand article by article what is biased or propaganda and how to suss it out. At least the ability to be suspicious without the need to jump to being a full on conspiracy theorist. IDK, it’s just so disappointing.
The trick is getting people to understand article by article what is biased or propaganda and how to suss it out.
Absolutely. Some variation of which has been promoted for 50 years. We’re very, very, very far behind.
