[HN Gopher] A Tight-Knit Circle of Internet Troublemakers Convin... ___________________________________________________________________ A Tight-Knit Circle of Internet Troublemakers Convinced Professional Journalists Author : exolymph Score : 15 points Date : 2021-09-10 22:29 UTC (30 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (tracingwoodgrains.medium.com) (TXT) w3m dump (tracingwoodgrains.medium.com) | bob229 wrote: | Only a fool listens to the news. Stop wasting your time, it is | universally garbage | jolux wrote: | The author of this article says it was unsubtle, obvious satire | but I would say that the post they referenced was solidly in | Poe's law territory. Is it really so hard to imagine someone | genuinely writing that? Perhaps they've never met a misogynist. | | Wishing for it to be true after it had been shown to be false is | one thing (and clearly dumb), but I think the existence of such a | subreddit is a perfectly reasonable thing to be outraged over in | the first place. Texas's SB8 will cause real harm, and making fun | of people who are deeply concerned for women's safety because of | it seems borderline sociopathic to me. | oregano wrote: | Those damned "Internet Troublemakers" always causing a stir. | dabbledash wrote: | It doesn't take much to convince "professional journalists" of | things, as long as the things confirm their priors. | | I'd cut them some slack, because we're all bad at that, but their | literal job is to check things out. | dragonwriter wrote: | > It doesn't take much to convince "professional journalists" | of things, as long as the things confirm their priors. | | As long as it fits into a convenient, simple, marketable | narrative that isn't unacceptablr to the outlet the journalist | works for, its not that hard. Bonus, sure, if its one that the | outlet the journalist works for is already pushing (which is | probably more important in most cases than the journalist's own | priors; in fact, that this is the case is pretty visible when | journalists switch outlets.) | jolux wrote: | If you have to rely on a news source's veracity, I would not | rely on the veracity of Vice and Business Insider, to put it | mildly. And "New York Times bestselling author" is a marketing | blurb, not a reputation for reporting the truth. | [deleted] | diogenesjunior wrote: | rip in peace /r/deuxrama | mypoormother wrote: | Who gives a fuck about some reddit faggot drama? Kill yourself, | cunt. | tuatoru wrote: | something something death of research. | | Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts: | https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl... | Yoric wrote: | Great read, thanks for the link! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-10 23:00 UTC)