• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    No I agree it’s not helpful. But in this day and age with the type of capitalism what we’re living in, forgive me for being cynical.

    In Michigan, they tried to convince the people that the water had an acceptable level of lead and that they had nothing to worry about. Even Obama came to support the local government on this. And it turned out it wasn’t true. They came up with “scientific” evidence to try to prove it. All of this to support a local business that fucked up the local water supply when changing the aqueducts or some shit.

    And I’m sorry but I don’t have time to do requests through the freedom of information act and potentially have to fight some bureaucrat because I’m not a journalist.

    • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I don’t have time to do requests through the freedom of information act and potentially have to fight some bureaucrat because I’m not a journalist

      Why do you hold such strong opinions about something about which you are not well-informed?

      edit: also, we need more citizen journalist to help fill the void as unfortunately local newspapers are disappearing

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        1 year ago

        We DO need more and better journalists that investigate and find the truth and inform people. Right now it feels like media companies all have some kind of agenda and everything is just clickbait to generate revenue.

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          Noam Chomsky was right. It’s called the Propaganda Model of Communication.

        • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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          100% and commercial social media algorithms amplify the clickbait and bury and nuanced perspectives