-What's their bias? -What are they trying to sell? (That could be an idea, but is often advertising space.) -Who benefits if I believe this article? Top of that list should be ME, but seldom is. -Can I find reliable sources that contradict this? How many?<<
Those are good ideas.
>> Which makes thinking about "the news" into a lot more work than most people are willing to put in! <<
I tend to skim much of the time, until something seems questionable enough to need corroboration. If I want to read a source regularly, then I tend to research some of its articles to see how reliable it is. Once I've determined it's reliable, I don't need to keep checking every piece unless something seems suspicious. If I'm researching a topic, though, I look across multiple sources and try to see which things correlate or contradict.
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Re: Newspapers
Date: 2024-10-30 04:56 am (UTC)-What's their bias?
-What are they trying to sell? (That could be an idea, but is often advertising space.)
-Who benefits if I believe this article? Top of that list should be ME, but seldom is.
-Can I find reliable sources that contradict this? How many?<<
Those are good ideas.
>> Which makes thinking about "the news" into a lot more work than most people are willing to put in! <<
I tend to skim much of the time, until something seems questionable enough to need corroboration. If I want to read a source regularly, then I tend to research some of its articles to see how reliable it is. Once I've determined it's reliable, I don't need to keep checking every piece unless something seems suspicious. If I'm researching a topic, though, I look across multiple sources and try to see which things correlate or contradict.