I've known a few reporters. They didn't start out as compromised hacks. But they had deadlines, advertiser/revenue pressures, fear of drawing litigation and, most of all, vulnerability to slick operators who can offer plausible content. The ones with strong integrity got forced out.
I've known a few reporters. They didn't start out as compromised hacks. But they had deadlines, advertiser/revenue pressures, fear of drawing litigation and, most of all, vulnerability to slick operators who can offer plausible content. The ones with strong integrity got forced out.
Same here, James. If I only had a dollar for every time someone I knew went into a corporate field aiming to make changes from the inside...
Thumbs up. If not presenting omissions and half-truths, then self-censorship is the name of the game.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/telecommunications-fake_news-conspiracy-conspiracy_theories-bias-propaganda-cman1039_low.jpg
Control the input. Question authority. Be your own mentor.
Don’t develop Gell-Mann Amnesia. ✅
Read everything with a critical eye. ✅
Stop trusting “experts.”✅
Take time to research and self-educate. ✅
Make your own fact-checking the norm. ✅
https://twitter.com/ReedMCooper/status/1654138490752323587?s=20
Extra Memo:
Try not to get sucked in by tears and nice Andrea Bocceli-like background music. Do your due diligence. ✔