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*Bump*
Interesting op-ed from the Deputy Editor of the Jewish Chronicle in the UK over the failings of the New York Times, identified by others online.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-gaza-coverage
TL;DR: The NYT scraped emotive fake news from Twitter, being propulgated by people with an agenda and stuck it on its front page. Others online did the basic fact-checking the NYT should have done and showed where it was false.
The age of 'papers of record' doing all the investigative journalism is dead, but while people online can be interested in spreading conspiracy theories and fake news - others online can be determined to get to the truth and shine a spotlight upon it.
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Tbf, Gaza itself is a human shield—anything you do there, you do with a human shield. Entire Palestinian families—including children and grandparents—have been destroyed in the latest round of attacks. Meanwhile, on The Jewish Chronicle's Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Je..._and_criticism
I feel like, when your publication's wikipedia entry has a long section on how it's been forced to apologize and pay damages for false and defamatory claims on multiple occasions in just the past few years, you might not be a good candidate for writing about the incidental journalistic missteps of better publications. Unless, of course, you're penning a piece for a ludicrous shitrag that gives the most odious racists and conspiracy theorists in England a platform :haha:
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The crisis of journalism is also present in education. The anti-intellectualist culture.
Dumb people are easier to manipulate than smart people. It has been years of anti-intellectualist culture.
The anti-intellectualist culture is finally reaping what it sow.
So suddenly no brainer thoughts become a major discovery because intellectuals have been exiled for being "geeks" and "nerds".
* The word "intelligence" is about being smart, but in the anti-intellectualist culture it is military information.
* The word "Intellectuals" in anti-intellectualist culture describes entitled people who propagate ideas on how to efficiently dumb down people by changing the meaning of words.
* Data and information are sought as more relevant for decision making than knowledge, experience and wisdom
* The word "expert" and "consultant" refers to entitled people who are hired to tell top management what could be learned by talking to front desk employees. Many people do not understand the difference between knowledge and experience.
* Thinking is difficult. This is why most people judge. And the anti-intellectualist culture judges people a lot.
instead of remarking all these tiny nuances that result of anti-intellectualist culture, you better try to end anti-intellectualist culture. Anti-intellectualist culture is the cult that worships the dumb.
The whole idea of "conspiracy theory" paired with anti-intellectualist culture and censorship implies that "you are dumb and we protect you from conspiracy theories that could harm you".
Anti-intellectual culture really needs censorship and doctrine to guide people because for years they did not develop the intelect to protect themselves. Questioning doctrine and censorship leads to nowhere. You either have anti-intellectual culture or you don't.
Questioning the nuances of anti-intellectual culture does not abolish the need to protect dumb people.
