And it's about what happens when all these citizen journalists have the same platform as regular vetted journalistic organizations and they have more power. And what happens. We've seen what happens. We've got conspiracy theories that are so outlandish flying around the globe and it gets people excited. They're very creative and people like to be members of the club and they go for it. And this is costing literal lives
And so overall, it looks very biased. Then I also wonder about accrediting journalists with some sort of gold seal of approval. For one, it would give consumers a clear understanding that these journalists have been approved. They are providing you factual information and for the journalists. Then they would have to have met certain criteria. In order to get this accreditation. It would hold journalists accountable, kind of like the bar Association does for lawyers, and they're both would not be government agencies
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:59
And now it's no longer that because, like you said, the 24 hours news cycle has created a bunch of talking heads that have agenda. Yeah, I don't know. I'm with these people in Davos. I'm, like, let's figure out something that we haven't talked about yet. What's the next solution? But I love your contribution to this. And, yeah, the 24 hours news cycle really did mess this up. You're right
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Gail O'Sullivan
@gnossos · 4:32
And then we'd also, of course, there are supposed to be, but there's a lot of amateur journalists out there just putting out whatever they want to say. I have this conversation a lot with people that I'm in disagreement with about the facts, and I'll say, Well, then, who do we believe? What source can we share in common, to draw facts from, to make inferences about the solutions to the problem that we're discussing
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:13
I mean, no journalists in the world would mind that if they're a true journalist, but the news organizations probably don't have a budget to have real time fact checking people that can provide sources as we listen. But what it would do, it would train us to start expecting that from new sources
You both may find this interesting. It was an article published today about an MIT study regarding fact checking and whether you label it true or false, and where you put that tag near or around the headline makes the big difference. It's a bit counterintuitive, but it's fascinating to see how our minds work anyway. I'll include the link here