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Comment by booleandilemma | Hacker News Reader

I love the title "brunchlord".

The only thing I like about it is that it makes it easy to know whether I should care about this person's opinion.

Sure enough, the blog post was completely deranged -- to the point that the author even tried to present it as a given that reporting on both sides of an issue is a bad thing. This moron is legitimately mad that modern journalism isn't propagandistic enough. Incredible.

The idea that issues have exactly two sides, and that all words that come out of anyone’s mouth should be treated exactly equally whether or not they make sense or have any backing evidence, is a bad thing. Journalism has to have a fact-checking, filtering, and prioritizing function, or else it’s just Twitter.

Not that anyone’s doing a good job of that right now, but it seems like that’s what the author is advocatig for.

From a business perspective the fatal flaw is that the customers don’t really want to read something close to the “truth”, they just want to hear their own preconceptions, or the deliberately uninformed statements of their favorite politician celebrities, repeated back.

It is kind of meaningful on its own but probably should be kept in context as much as possible before the concept has a chance to drift.

>scale-chasing incompetence by visionless brunchlords

There.

It may not be award-winning journalism but this is the kind of creativity that does stand out above the crowd.

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