Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 28 2020 03:12pm)
Except they are held to different standards and it's explicitly part of their code of ethics. Similar to accountants with GAAP or lawyers or a host of other professions. Journalists know this, just because you're ignorant of it doesn't mean every one is. Maybe try a simple google search before making statements that are so easily proven wrong.
https://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/commstudies/ethicsI don't know if you're being willfully obtuse or you just can't follow arguments. Instead of repeating myself, let me just repost this:
Quote (IceMage @ Mar 28 2020 11:49am)
Politicians disseminate information.
We assign a "journalist" label to someone, and demand that the information they put out is accurate. We assign "politician", "pundit", or "opinion host" label to someone, and suddenly the responsibility to provide accurate information evaporates? Why? You'd have to make an argument for why there should be such an entirely different standard for one label and not the others. They're all just human beings who inform or misinform.
Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 28 2020 05:38pm)
Except nobody is saying they have the same function, nobody has said either lying is fine, and part of a politicians job is absolutely to disseminate information.
As usual, your laziness is legitimately cringeworthy.
If you could be bothered to actually think through what you type you might be a decent contributor, but you are so unable or unwilling to actually put thought into your worldview that you will always just shit on the board while claiming victory.
Yep.
Quote (excellence @ Mar 28 2020 06:01pm)
triggered as fuck