Who Guards NewsGuard? Academics asleep on the job - Propaganda In Focus
Recently, I was reading ‘an important paper’ recommended by a philosopher who specialises in epistemology (the study of how we know what we think we know). The paper (Chen et al 2023) investigates the question: ‘Do online platforms facilitate the consumpti...
Why wouldn't they? They can cite whatever they want as long as it matches their conclusions, and if they have the correct opinions they won't get punished.
That's how every "argument" is made in the humanities--begin with a conclusion trumpeting your prejudices and mine the stacks for other people advancing your thesis to provide testimony for rationalization.
Honestly that’s essentially how you’re taught to write a “research” paper from undergrad on. Put some of your own bullshit down and then buttress it with random journals that back up whatever point you’re trying to make in any given section. Gotta hit your 10 sources or whatever the professor is asking…. And it honestly doesn’t change postgrad.
True. In the Cal State system, it was possible to earn a 4-year BS or BA with only 2 required writing courses--freshman comp and "upper division writing" taken in the third year.
We were gatekeepers with no gate to keep, charged with ensuring graduates were at least capable of writing and reading at the 12th-grade level.
Because it's all leftists trying to shut down any thought that goes against the narrative they want?
This is never a hard question.
Is it because it aligns with the left wing bias of academia?
newsguard is a far left site designed to say "these leftist sites are accurate".
seriously, they rate sites as accurate who have paid out millions for defamation. a court literally found those sites as "not accurate" and yet newsguard says they're fine because they're leftist...
and one of the ways newsguard gets away with this is by presenting leftist sites as centrist, when in fact they're not even close.
because they are gay commies