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CloudWatcher

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3. The "News"

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Fri Jun 11, 2021, 10:13 PM

Jun 2021

Wouldn't it be nice if the "news" had some minimal journalistic morals to go along with their soapbox?

It's probably a good thing that we'll never be able to really regulate the news, but it might be worth pondering how to encourage telling the truth, fact checking, calling out lies and covering stories of actual importance.

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