• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    LoL. Are people unaware of the NYT’s culpability?

    Acting as a stenographer for the state isn’t “journalism.”

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        If I tell him the sky is blue, and he asked for a source, am I obligated to provide that as well?

        I’m not going to play along with bad faith questioning of common knowledge.

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          If I tell him the sky is blue, and he asked for a source, am I obligated to provide that as well? […]

          Imo, while not exactly proper science, a quick source for such a claim could be a simple color photo of the sky.

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          […] I’m not going to play along with bad faith questioning of common knowledge.

          Leaving aside the “bad faith questioning” component, how would you handle requests for proof of what you are calling “common knowledge” in general?

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          You’ll find “common knowledge” is surprisingly hard to prove when you’re wrong. Wikipedia is a big place, if you can find concrete evidence of NYT lying, you can do a lot of reputational damage to them (even as so far as getting them removed as an acceptable source)