Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWhy do people consider Al Jazeera as a trusted source?message-squaremessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up143arrow-down1message-squareWhy do people consider Al Jazeera as a trusted source?Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down1·1 day agoCherry pick a few topics you know incredibly well and look at their published articles on those subjects. Did they cover your area of expertise correctly with nuance and giving the appropriate context? If yes, now you have more confidence that the articles in other areas are also well written and researched. If no, now you have less confidence in them You can apply the above strategy to any news source. For many people the above protocol gives good results with aj.
minus-squareimpudentmortal@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up21·20 hours ago Cherry pick a few topics you know incredibly well and look at their published articles on those subjects. If they ever write an article on the In N out secret menu I’ll let you know
Cherry pick a few topics you know incredibly well and look at their published articles on those subjects.
Did they cover your area of expertise correctly with nuance and giving the appropriate context?
If yes, now you have more confidence that the articles in other areas are also well written and researched.
If no, now you have less confidence in them
You can apply the above strategy to any news source. For many people the above protocol gives good results with aj.
If they ever write an article on the In N out secret menu I’ll let you know