That was unexpected

Probably exactly this

What a creep

In Ontario, it’s often swimming.

Lots of lakes here, children need to be taught to swim

There is much too much editorializing in the news. It’s so rare to even see an actual news article that doesn’t use tweets as citations or even the basis for their entire article.

I really feel like journalism has just devolved into journalists scrolling Twitter and writing about what they’ve read every day.

Honestly, I couldn’t disagree more.

I think doing this is what’s got us into this pickle to begin with, where everything is so ultra partisan

But why should we settle on propaganda being the state of things? Shouldn’t this be unacceptable?

I see it like racism, sure it exists and it has existed for a long time, and maybe it’s even getting worse and more obvious. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight back against it and demand better though.

Same with journalists, imo. Demand they be better. If you’re presenting you own biased take at least present the best arguments the other side has.

The point should be to inform the reader and for the audience to make up their own minds from the stated facts, not looking to a journalist to tell them what to think.

I understand this is the implicit bias argument, but there are ways around that, regardless of how much affect you think it may have.

Exactly.

What happened to the news telling you: here is the reasoning for this political decision from the party in power, and now here is the counter points from the opposition party.

And let us, the people, sort out which one we want to back?

I guess you just accept that no journalist can be bothered to ‘investigate’ who blew up those pipelines because ‘funding has dried up’ making it ‘impossible’ for them to ask questions?

This seems like something any real journalist would love to sink their teeth into, and discover the truth of. Why haven’t any of them? Because they don’t have funding?

Bleh, I don’t buy it. Not one bit. That’s an excuse.

And tweets aren’t facts, they are statements. If a journalist wants to ‘report’ on a statement made on Twitter they still need to at least go an interview the person who made the tweet, then interview people around that person, and interview people who refute whatever statement is made in the tweet.

Like, you know …. Follow up.

But what it sounds like you’re saying is ‘no one has enough funding to do anything more than sit at home and remotely scroll Twitter looking for stuff to write their opinions about’.

I’m sorry, but I demand much more than that from the media.

I don’t hate you, bro.

This crowd can be a tough one. I wish there were more people like you here. Don’t get discouraged

I’m not a journalist