@skdh All reporting is hard, there used to be an understanding that powerful people/academics lie and the job of the reporter was to fact-check things like press releases by contacting other members of the field! Now the media are stenographers not reporters!

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• URL: https://x.com/benjmakesmovies/status/1626855830233415681
• Author: Benjamin Gilbert-Lif (@benjmakesmovies)
• Posted: 2023-02-18 08:07:10

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@skdh

All reporting is hard, there used to be an understanding that powerful people/academics lie and the job of the reporter was to fact-check things like press releases by contacting other members of the field! Now the media are stenographers not reporters!

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