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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 34 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

All they can do is say “this is what the two liars are saying, we don’t know what will happen”

Not really... that is exactly what I meant about the capitulation of journalism. Sure they can say something like "Trump claims the sky is green; however, multiple observations, expert testimony and reality immediately confirms this claim to be false"... instead, they just quote the lie and move on.

I get that they cannot really confirm everything, but they are not even trying anymore. There is no questioning, there is no challenge... they just echo what is posted on Tweets or whatever other garbage platform and call themselves journalists

At the VERY LEAST, they should always add the disclaimer that no evidence was provided whenever parroting a known liar

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Vance and Trump's performances at the debates were the worst I"ve ever seen. By far.

Vance crying about being fact checked.

Trump saying he has concepts of plans and rambling on about immigrants eating people's pets.

And then they were elected. The U.S. truly is a clown nation.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

Not a meme for those interested...

This piece of shit of a human actually complained about being fact checked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxF918BjWQ

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, yeah I didn't think about this from a US media POV. Where I'm from, the local media reports on trump with what you said should be done, they say what trump said and then note that this is not true and theres no evidence. Because my countrys media doesn't have access to trump, they cant really ask him questions or challenge him. So the best they can do is summarize what was said and then point out the inaccuracies.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well I do not know where you are from but your journalists seem to have stayed professionals!

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, because Finland is a bilingual country, our state media focuses on the Finnish and Swedish reporting, the English version is not very wide in their reporting, most of their stuff is summaries and focused on Finland from a international perspective. So that is not a good source for foreigners to find out about world events. The Finnish version is more comprehensive and deals with more topics. The Norwegian medias are a bit better on the English language stuff.

But I thought you might find this amusing: https://yle.fi/a/74-20219379

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Time to learn Finnish it seems ahhahaha

Thanks for the link, refreshing to see actual logic and plain discourse in display

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

LOL Kuusi Palaa!

I had no idea hahahahaha