Facts? We don’t need no stinking facts!

“No professional organization keeps statistics on the percentage of newspaper stories that are fact-checked, but the consensus is that it’s quite low.” (Slate)

Do a simple test. Take a topic where you are personally well-informed. It might be your profession, an area where you have personal experience or a topic you have studied to some depth. How accurate are newspapers and other media when they write about your particular topic? Right. You can safely assume they have the same level of accuracy across the board.

[Secular Blasphemy]

…and ain’t it just the truth?

Met die hele kust.org-historie hebben pakweg 90% van de kranten en tijdschriften en internetsites gewoon een paar paragrafen overgeschreven uit het persbericht dat we de wereld ingestuurd hebben. De enige die echt iets origineels had, De Financieel-Economische Tijd, heeft praktisch niets juists gezegd.