LogFAQs > #979201545

Colonel_Lingus posted...

Depends on the outlet that's reporting. Some are more accurate/less biased than others.

Looking at your poll options, it's clear you have a very juvenile perception of the media, however.

Pretty much exactly this. Some outlets are extremely unreliable, others are pretty decent. It's also worth defining exactly what "trust" means in this context: Blindly trusting everything anyone says is pretty much never a good idea, regardless of who they are. Incorporating your own fact-checking to help shape your beliefs is always going to be a good idea when it's easy to do so or when those beliefs are likely to have significant consequences, even if you're hearing the report from a trustworthy source. To say "I trust *outlet*" is a statement that can have a wide range of meanings.

It's something you need to be deciding on a case by case basis, not distilling into a 1-10 scale with heavily loaded textual qualifiers. But then TC only ever makes topics to fish for reasons to think less of people based on rigid pre-existing biases, so we can't really expect such nuance.