Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "The Truth Behind the Great G36 Controversy" video.

having worked with news reporters, personally written news articles worked with news cameramen and run for elected office. i have engaged with the press, I've seen how the sausage is made. And mostly how is made is some guy takes a half hour to get a vague impression of the idea and is the first to publish, and all the other sources regardless of format just copy the angle of that first guy. The guy who rushed it and didn't do any homework. The guy who didn't take the time to play back the interview recording to get quotes correct. Accuracy is not the primary priority. Publishing before the next interval is. If forced you can always print a retraction later. But the news sources are not paying for the hours it would take to do real investigation anyway. the guys who make any pretense of having journalistic integrity don't take the time to do research they just put in hedge words. "Some are concerned that... "
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@jantschierschky3461 yes the thing is that's everybody right now. journalist got away with doing it for years and years when there was a small pool of them. And no alternative source of information. If you look at all the trappings around say cable news, it's pretty obvious that they spend a lot more effort putting the appearance of credibility than actually researching their information. Everything is about making a credential. but a credential doesn't mean you're right it just means you ought to know how to be right. And when you're an organization that awards itself the credential, even that isn't very impressive.
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@jantschierschky3461 honestly when I look at the New Media situation, it reminds me of when newspapers were a very new idea. Yellow journalism wins. If the same pattern repeats, we can expect to see people value having individual sources that they can trust because of methodology more than tribe. I think Wikipedia actually is at the advance of that trend. It shows the sources hot linked in the middle of the text. I think the time will come when none of us would tolerate an article that doesn't have that. I'm an attorney and I can't even stand things like the Wall Street journal talking about court cases without actually linking to the ruling, or to the pleading docs. There's no excuse it's just an artifact of old news format. There's always going to be people who just want reactionary yelling. there will also always be people who want to be well-informed and they're willing to do a little bit of work to get there. For both, I think the market will begin to deliver what they demand. We've got the first half...
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