• Mortoc@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This was legitimately fascinating. It’s crazy that Bloomberg reported on the same issue and didn’t find anything. Their reporters are terrible at their jobs or were prevented from doing them properly. Either way Bloomberg looks inept or corrupt.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not that surprising that an outlet that makes its entire living on a certain segment of the economy would do a better job in that segment than generalist journalists.

      If you’ve ever seen a news article about something you have real world expertise in, you know what I mean. Every time this happens to me I’m like “but they’re giving it such a surface treatment, missing the real point, and getting lots of little things wrong.”

      Then I turn to the next article and read it like it’s gospel. It’s a cognitive dissonance I don’t know how to deal with except by becoming an expert in everything, which is impossible.