Seriously, I think that the decline in verifiability of current information is related to the events that brought reporters like Dan Rodricks from the newsroom to Substack. That is, the decline in the numbers of good, knowledgeable journalists, especially in the state and local areas. I really missed Dan's voice in the Sun, and that is the principal reason I stopped reading it. Smith and Co stand for the decline in quality and readability of a once-great newspaper, but I'm afraid that it is mainly due to the public demand for the easy automation of discourse along with the broad appeal of trashy sensationalism. Of course I am a biased old duffer who started his career washing the ink from the rollers of a Miele press over seventy years ago, so I will defer to younger more up-to-date views.
There was a time when it was quite pleasant and entertaining to run into a crackpot. I used to run into a few around Grand Circus Park in Detroit back in the fifties. I've had many a conversation with some in bars and at sports events. Crackpots used to have imagination, and many had connections to outer space. Now they've gotten boring. Just the same things over and over. Truth - hell! Give me a good old-fashioned crackpot any time. Preferably not on the public payroll, though.
I agree. The main stream media used to tell the truth. Now with so much disinformation, I’m sure people get confused and led down a path.
The media that publishes this BS knows it’s not true and they don’t care.
News should never have been allowed to be a money maker especially over BS. We went from reading the national enquirer for laughs to people reading it as if it contained facts.
The essential element in all of this is TRUTH. More specifically, the lack of truth. It almost seems as if we have further evolved (or devolved), in only my 71 years, to become a species absolutely pathological about lying. Everybody lies. Often for no reason. Parents. Spouses. Friends. Preachers. And of course, politicians, judges, and way too many journalists. Except Dan Rodricks.
Every single ad on television, every single ad, period, includes some form of deception. AI will surely worsen disinformation, and disinformation is being utilized to build the data centers that are already dearly costing average citizens their drinking water and their health. Farmers are literally having their land stolen from them by emminent domain policies that steal land for power lines in order to benefit, in this case, billionaires. It's all a big fat lie.
Calling out the lies, as they happen, has become mandatory.
...and that fellow who for years often stationed himself on the sidewalk in front of the Sun building on Calvert St., with his flippable signs that read: "Sun Lies" and "Sun Errs."
Seriously, I think that the decline in verifiability of current information is related to the events that brought reporters like Dan Rodricks from the newsroom to Substack. That is, the decline in the numbers of good, knowledgeable journalists, especially in the state and local areas. I really missed Dan's voice in the Sun, and that is the principal reason I stopped reading it. Smith and Co stand for the decline in quality and readability of a once-great newspaper, but I'm afraid that it is mainly due to the public demand for the easy automation of discourse along with the broad appeal of trashy sensationalism. Of course I am a biased old duffer who started his career washing the ink from the rollers of a Miele press over seventy years ago, so I will defer to younger more up-to-date views.
There was a time when it was quite pleasant and entertaining to run into a crackpot. I used to run into a few around Grand Circus Park in Detroit back in the fifties. I've had many a conversation with some in bars and at sports events. Crackpots used to have imagination, and many had connections to outer space. Now they've gotten boring. Just the same things over and over. Truth - hell! Give me a good old-fashioned crackpot any time. Preferably not on the public payroll, though.
I agree. The main stream media used to tell the truth. Now with so much disinformation, I’m sure people get confused and led down a path.
The media that publishes this BS knows it’s not true and they don’t care.
News should never have been allowed to be a money maker especially over BS. We went from reading the national enquirer for laughs to people reading it as if it contained facts.
The essential element in all of this is TRUTH. More specifically, the lack of truth. It almost seems as if we have further evolved (or devolved), in only my 71 years, to become a species absolutely pathological about lying. Everybody lies. Often for no reason. Parents. Spouses. Friends. Preachers. And of course, politicians, judges, and way too many journalists. Except Dan Rodricks.
Every single ad on television, every single ad, period, includes some form of deception. AI will surely worsen disinformation, and disinformation is being utilized to build the data centers that are already dearly costing average citizens their drinking water and their health. Farmers are literally having their land stolen from them by emminent domain policies that steal land for power lines in order to benefit, in this case, billionaires. It's all a big fat lie.
Calling out the lies, as they happen, has become mandatory.
Thank you for your always honorable work, Dan.
Wake up and smell the BS indeed. Or is it smell the BS first, then wake up?
...and that fellow who for years often stationed himself on the sidewalk in front of the Sun building on Calvert St., with his flippable signs that read: "Sun Lies" and "Sun Errs."