In this day in age with so much information going around., I came across this quote "The opinion forms the people and not the people forming the opinion."
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Are Not News Outlets.
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True, in the case of opinion speakers. But they also do get video coverage up much faster. And in the case of license streaming can even change the course of events.
I would also argue the mainstream media news outlets are curating to such a degree, especially in North America, that they have lost the trust of the population.
I would also argue the mainstream media news outlets are curating to such a degree, especially in North America, that they have lost the trust of the population.
Of course they aren't news outlets.
But news outlets and media are suffering these days. The end of print advertising has lead to budget cuts at all our media, meaning less reporters and less investigative journalism. In the US, most media are owned by 5 or 6 corporations. Here in Canada, Post Media owns too much and they are american. We have the CBC but they rely on AP and Reuters more and more.
The days of having a paper subscription and trusting what was delivered at your door to be fair, well informed and impartial are long gone.
The list of the number of international sources that are trustworthy and worth checking is not that large anymore.
If you are posting from BB, insta or the xitter just from your feed you will get what the algorithym says you like. Of those the xitter is still the quickest for searching sources and finding direct links to video evidence, international human rights and international news agencies. The replies are now mostly bots and trolls, but you can still find sources though more and more are leaving to bluesky or other places, even though these are also still problematic in different ways.
So I might read headlines, check stories that interest me, check the xitter for other sources if it seems questionable, check the direct sources linked there and then come back to the original story. Its pretty fast and can end up being fairly balanced.
Contrast this with research work, checking research papers, checking sources, checking references in other works to the original and then trying to fact check the paper and this is generally faster and can be more verifiable.
This is a good and important discussion and I'm happy to hear other people's approaches to wading through the onslaught of news, information and crap.
But news outlets and media are suffering these days. The end of print advertising has lead to budget cuts at all our media, meaning less reporters and less investigative journalism. In the US, most media are owned by 5 or 6 corporations. Here in Canada, Post Media owns too much and they are american. We have the CBC but they rely on AP and Reuters more and more.
The days of having a paper subscription and trusting what was delivered at your door to be fair, well informed and impartial are long gone.
The list of the number of international sources that are trustworthy and worth checking is not that large anymore.
If you are posting from BB, insta or the xitter just from your feed you will get what the algorithym says you like. Of those the xitter is still the quickest for searching sources and finding direct links to video evidence, international human rights and international news agencies. The replies are now mostly bots and trolls, but you can still find sources though more and more are leaving to bluesky or other places, even though these are also still problematic in different ways.
So I might read headlines, check stories that interest me, check the xitter for other sources if it seems questionable, check the direct sources linked there and then come back to the original story. Its pretty fast and can end up being fairly balanced.
Contrast this with research work, checking research papers, checking sources, checking references in other works to the original and then trying to fact check the paper and this is generally faster and can be more verifiable.
This is a good and important discussion and I'm happy to hear other people's approaches to wading through the onslaught of news, information and crap.
