02-12-2020, 02:42 PM
Thanks flofrog and Major3rd!
I agree. I was thinking after the fact about this point that Joseph brought up about investigative journalists having a self-regulating community. I agree with his point that discovering hard truth in such a confusing society as ours requires a sort of intellectual rigor and fact-checking capability that few people outside of trained researchers and journalists have. But at the same time, the journalism (and academic) community has demonstrated problematic behaviors throughout history that keep truth from being revealed. One example is a general lack of open-mindedness to weirder ideas like UFOs, paranormal phenomena, etc. Leslie Kean is a (formerly respected) investigative journalist who has dedicated a lot of time to reporting legitimate information on UFOs with a lot of journalistic rigor, but still catches a ton of flack. She's one of many examples of not just journalists, but academics who sacrifice their good standing inside the community in order to report truthfully on controversial topics. The communities have not yet "self-regulated." But I do agree with Joseph that the self-regulation does exist, just that it has cultural limits.
(02-11-2020, 04:43 PM)Major3rd Wrote: I don't think that we should leave everything to the hands of journalists, we have to go our own way, to learn the hard way how to discern what rings true for us.
I agree. I was thinking after the fact about this point that Joseph brought up about investigative journalists having a self-regulating community. I agree with his point that discovering hard truth in such a confusing society as ours requires a sort of intellectual rigor and fact-checking capability that few people outside of trained researchers and journalists have. But at the same time, the journalism (and academic) community has demonstrated problematic behaviors throughout history that keep truth from being revealed. One example is a general lack of open-mindedness to weirder ideas like UFOs, paranormal phenomena, etc. Leslie Kean is a (formerly respected) investigative journalist who has dedicated a lot of time to reporting legitimate information on UFOs with a lot of journalistic rigor, but still catches a ton of flack. She's one of many examples of not just journalists, but academics who sacrifice their good standing inside the community in order to report truthfully on controversial topics. The communities have not yet "self-regulated." But I do agree with Joseph that the self-regulation does exist, just that it has cultural limits.
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