Comment by traceroute66 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by traceroute66 | Hacker News Reader

Ironic really given that most of the rest of the BBC dedicates hours of airtime every week to denigrating social media ([1][2] etc. etc.) because the BBC are so desperate to maintain relevance in a era where (shock horror) you can actually find good quality unbiased content on the internet.

Modern traditional media is barely any better than social media these days anyway. It ranges from blatantly biased (e.g. Daily Mail, Telegraph) to the BBC which is only unbiased when it suits them. Just as you can't believe everything you read on the internet, you can't believe everything the BBC tells you either (assuming they even bother to tell you in the first place .... see their silence about Michelle Mone and PPE for example, the BBC were silent when the story was reported in full everywhere else).

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04jqjcj

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3qBWQnDDTFKhHQkwRv...

You clearly have your own pre-existing gripes with the BBC, which have very little to do with this story.

I guess the difference is "old media" is held more accountable than "new media" when they lie.

> I guess the difference is "old media" is held more accountable than "new media" when they lie.

Except they are not.

It is amazing, for example, how many times the BBC conveniently fails to correctly attribute an interviewee.

So many times somebody is given a generic job title when they are actually working for a political lobby organisation for example.

> Except they are not.

In what way is new media more accountable?

It seems the vast majority of Twitter accounts spew lies. In the last few years it seems to have become even worse for social media.

I can write a complaint to the BBC for them to run a retraction, social media embraces the division and lies because the platform is not responsible for the content.

I cannot envision at all how someone would consider old media less accountable than new media.

How is it ironic? Their Mastodon instance is private and basically read-only, not social media.

I don't think this is the thread best suited for excreting your obvious pent-up anger

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