I'd argue the reason 4chan finds such gems is that it isn't a place people go to try find it out.
Any place designed to find a solution attracts retards who want to feel smug and smart. 4chan attracts retards who want to act like retards, and who will occasionally get something right.
You're working under the false assumption they didn't know.
This is Journolist 3.0 in action. They knew. They ran with a specific story. They buried the lede on the actual facts.
Now that they got what they wanted (the vaccines out there) the truth doesn't matter, which means they can actually put the truth out for public consumption because there will never be any recourse, and no one who was part of the cover-up will suffer any consequences for their actions.
This stuff was being talked about on /pol/ in February 2020.
MSM is literally worse than random shitposters on 4chan.
Random shitposters on 4chan are of average intelligence (and often superpowered by autism)
Journalism students are always the most retarded students who have failed to enter into a well paid career.
By rights 4chan should be producing 10x more knowledge than the mainstream media. Unfortunately they spend 80% of their time on porn
I'd argue the reason 4chan finds such gems is that it isn't a place people go to try find it out.
Any place designed to find a solution attracts retards who want to feel smug and smart. 4chan attracts retards who want to act like retards, and who will occasionally get something right.
You're working under the false assumption they didn't know.
This is Journolist 3.0 in action. They knew. They ran with a specific story. They buried the lede on the actual facts.
Now that they got what they wanted (the vaccines out there) the truth doesn't matter, which means they can actually put the truth out for public consumption because there will never be any recourse, and no one who was part of the cover-up will suffer any consequences for their actions.
Oh I know they knew. Or at least, their bosses knew. I'm sure many of the rank and file churnalism writers are true believers.
When I say 'worse than' I mean 'worse to read', not that they're definitively less competent.
Gotcha. And agreed.