A retrospective apology from me to millions of people out there

[NW-Bound]

Here's a PBS doc called Niall Ferguson's Networld. I watched it on TV last night. Damned good journalism. Please watch.

I forgot to say thanks for the link. Very interesting, including the second half when a lot was shown regarding China's advance in IT. If they can make the same progress in military hardware, the world will be in big trouble.

 

[ER Eddie]

In my experience, people can be true believers in many things, not just religion.

Yup. Scientists themselves can be just as dogmatic and rigid in their paradigms as any fundamentalist. There's a self-corrective mechanism in science that is supposed to kick in, but it's often slowed greatly by the same cognitive biases, emotional/cognitive/reputational investments in particular viewpoints, etc., that you see in religion. It's quite mistaken to think in black/white terms about either people of "faith" or scientists. Both can get equally entrenched in their thinking.

 

[racy]

As Justice Potter Stewart said, "I know it when I see it". (Applies to financial porn, too, IMHO).

 

[fasteddie911]

In our relatively young careers, already both my spouse and I have seen firsthand the "quality" of the reporting and journalism that happened to occur in our workplaces, at both the local and national level. I hate the term fake news, but it comes from somewhere and isn't necessarily far off sometimes. From local papers to award-winning national outlets, sensationalism, misinformation, misunderstanding, agendas, etc. are apparent. Some peoples jobs were lost or careers unfairly ruined by it. I'm not sure who holds these writers accountable in the end. Certainly has taught me to read stories with a more cautious eye.

 

[Music Lover]

In regards to Russian influence in the media......

Every American should read the part of the Mueller Report that deals with how Russian agents infiltrated various social media networks. It was well thought out, well executed and done with great patience.

Read the actual report, not somebody's interpretation of it.

Page 14 - Russian "Active Measures" Social Media Campaign.

Scary stuff.

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5955997-Muellerreport

I really can't say what I want as it's political, but what's left out of that report is just as or more important as what's in it. And if you saw his testimony, you saw a very confused old man unable to answer the very simplest of questions.

And the media overlooked all of that.

 

[MichaelB]