alt Hacker NewsIf you don't trust the Atlantic, don't read the Atlantic. Do you honestly believe every journalist is out here lying to you? Who do you trust to provide information to you, if not journalists, and what about the people you do trust makes them different from journalists?
Additionally, I'd say this argument doesn't really address the point that chatbots, AI news farms, and rapid copycat books being generated by LLMs flooding the market cause confusion in every conceivable market.
I believe that most journalists are writing stories that confirm their own priors because that’s what all humans have done since forever.
I also believe that today’s journalists cut their teeth in the Buzzfeed era when industry incentives were to write as much clickbait as fast as possible.
Journalism is eroding its own credibility. Or, market incentives are. I don’t think journalists are cartoon villains, simply humans who have been put on a pedestal that is no longer earned.
If I want to know about something now, I go find an expert in that thing and read their book, not a beat reporter.