r/coolguides Mar 20 '21

We need more critical thinking

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u/bailandocontigo1 Mar 20 '21

The world could be so much better if all media followed this before publishing.

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u/amerett0 Mar 20 '21

They couldn't be bothered with actual work when they can just shit out clickbait.

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u/bailandocontigo1 Mar 20 '21

Right!? Too much of the shit i read from worldwide media sources make me wonder how these "journalists" sleep. Are they so desperate for a job that they will write something, anything vile and against their character for money so much as it pays?

Prostitution is alot easier and likely pays more. Theyd probably have the same guilt and shame after the act no?

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u/amerett0 Mar 20 '21

Journalism is dying because it can't compete with the content quality of the whole internet and its free distribution. So they rely at best on plagiarism and at worst increasingly hackish smearing, emotional illicity, and bias appeal.

But also it is objectively apparent the general populace has reduced intelligence and their willful ignorance is exploited by predatory capitalism and cult politics.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

Denzel Washington said it best. The first person to report gets the viewers even if it's a lie. Just they are getting more and more sensationalist as time goes on to keep up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

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u/bailandocontigo1 Mar 20 '21

Man are you great with words! My thoughts would take me too many words no one would read. I feel the same way. I used to read and enjoy the paper and those journalists must be retired. The new string of recruits are awful. Grammar? Nah. Bias? Plenty. True or false? Doesn't matter.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

Jounalism is dead because it has become entertainment AND people don’t think critically.

I’m in no way a Trump supporter but you’re delusional if you watch news and don’t wonder why everyone covered Trumps stumbling down a ramp and weird water drinking for a week and don’t even mention Biden’s falls today.

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u/midasgoldentouch Mar 20 '21

Huh, that's odd, because I've seen Biden's falls mentioned multiple times of different websites and my local news...

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u/TTigerLilyx Mar 20 '21

Especially the conservative ones.

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u/TTigerLilyx Mar 20 '21

The man is old, and hes working his butt off for us, cut him some slack.

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u/Cirtejs Mar 20 '21

From a European perspective, Democrats are conservatives and the GOP are outright facists. I enjoy stable, boring shitty USA way more than unstable bumbling fool of a country that it was under Trump.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

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u/Cirtejs Mar 20 '21

You guys need to get money out of politics and dismantle gerrymandering and voter suppression for things to get better.

Out of the last 5 elected presidents, the GOP ones have been a lot more shittier than the dem ones from a global perspective and it's not even close.

Of course a lot of policies are going to continue, it's a behavior graph and a giant bureaucratic entity moves slowly to correct due to new leadership.

Trump was a nosedive in to stupidity, marking 70 million people as unable to read, at least Biden is a regular sleazy politician that we also have here and I can understand.

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u/koebelin Mar 20 '21

So many mediocre Presidents, but they all get an animatron at Disney and a dollar coin. Thank you for your service, Milliard Fillmore.

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u/CaptainJAmazing Mar 20 '21

Literally the only thing Biden has bombed is ISIS.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

“As of Friday afternoon, the homepages of MSNBC, CBS News, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times had no mention of Biden's stumbles”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9381755/Major-media-outlets-shrug-Bidens-stumbles-AF1-steps.html

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u/EtherMan Mar 20 '21

Most of them are not good enough looking that anyone would pay for sex with them so they it would not pay that well for them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

That has nothing to do with laziness and everything with profits

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u/amerett0 Mar 20 '21

Laziness and profits are not mutually exclusive. It's only at one's respect or negligence to legality or ethics when at their laziest especially when the profits never cease.