• jopepa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    News is supposed to tell you what happened not how to feel about it. When you notice an article is using a lot of emotionally charged language, that’s a good sign to check the facts (if there are any)

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      1 year ago

      You might as well only read news wires like Reuters and AP, then.

      Context matters, emotions matter, selective reporting is rampant, and all journalism writes to their audience. It’s usually more accurate to read articles from both sides of an issue and assume that both are wrong, with the truth often somewhere in the middle. On a geopolitical scale, it’s also good to assume rational actors (because, far more often than not, they are rational even if you don’t have the context that rationalizes an action).

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      1 year ago

      If an article has any emotional charge at all it’s automatically not factual