[larossmann]

>It's cementing my personal opinion deeper and deeper within me that that the media is directly responsible for forming the viewpoints and ideas of a huge amount of people - and they're violating this responsibility in huge ways by having inexperienced/irresponsible journalists and journalism - not to mention the corporate and governmental meddling that's pervasive to journalisms core.

I would be fine with the author of the article not being informed on the topic if they had just reached out to some farmers to ask what they think before blindly publishing this as a win.

I'm not a farmer. I have no clue.

I get numbers of people who show up at the state legislature in Nebraska in 2017, Maryland 2020, NY 2015, and I call them all up when this comes out. Some will be open to speaking on the record, some not, and some will come on video.

Nobody has all the answers, and nobody has the time to research & become an expert on everything when covering so many different topics in a day. That's fine.

Not asking the direct stakeholders who are affected by this news what they think of it when writing these articles, is a giant misstep. It takes so little time to do.

I think there is a financial penalty to not being the first out with an article, so the incentive structure is to be the first out with the new news, rather than the most correct. The corrections will never do as well as the original piece, either. There was one thing I got wrong in 2018, because I didn't have access to the court records at the time. Once they were shared with me, I posted a correction in 3 separate videos, that, altogether, got less than 5% the viewership of the original piece. It's even worse for mainstream outlets that issue the correction as an asterisk or bury it, rather than as a centerpiece of their programming.