In general the heuristic of not trusting mainstream media reports to accurately reflect reality is well based on what I know about how it works.
Without a direction to the bias that’s a universal counterargument. I’m perfectly aware of some the biases in reporting, my heuristics say that the media is likely underreporting the extent of the problem.
Without a direction to the bias that’s a universal counterargument.
It’s a universal counterargument when a newspaper stories that don’t appear to make sense and you don’t know the facts on the ground. You shouldn’t believe those stories.
I’m perfectly aware of some the biases in reporting, my heuristics say that the media is likely underreporting the extent of the problem.
I haven’t said anything about biases of reporting. I have spoken about journalists getting stories wrong. That quite often doesn’t have anything to do with bias. Journalists in Berlin from time to time get the idea that it’s the parliament and only the parliament that passes laws in Berlin wrong. That doesn’t have anything to do with left or right bias.
Thinking in terms of bias isn’t useful. My basic sense was that the story likely involves some form of corruption that didn’t make it into the news articles I read.
Garbage in Garbage out. You can’t correct bad reporting by correcting for bias.
A police officer doesn’t simply avoid persecuting a Muslim for rape because he’s afraid of being called a racist. That simply doesn’t make sense. On the other hand corruption can prevent crimes from being persecuted.
The UK is not a country where a newspaper can freely report on a story like this. But not because of multiculturalism. You can’t sue a newspaper in the UK for that. The UK’s insane defamation laws result in articles speaking about “influential Pakistani councilors” instead of naming the individuals in question. A US newspaper would have never done this and actually named the politicians who seem to have obstructed a rape investigation if this happened in any US city.
Of course you actually need to practice critical reading to get that. If you just take the story at face value and then try to correct a systematic bias you miss the juicy bits.
Given that the newspaper is effectively censored in speaking about the real story about corruption they make up a bullshit story about how it’s multiculturalism that makes police officers afraid to go after Muslims.
That’s not to say that multiculturalism didn’t do anything in that case. It reduced the reporting of the fact that the people were Muslim, but it very likely didn’t prevent them from being persecuted.
A police officer doesn’t simply avoid persecuting a Muslim for rape because he’s afraid of being called a racist. That simply doesn’t make sense.
People make decisions at the margin, and it’s entirely possible that the additional negative effect of being accused of racism pushes him over the edge in decisionmaking.
A police officer doesn’t simply avoid persecuting a Muslim for rape because he’s afraid of being called a racist.
First of all, police officers don’t prosecute anyone, prosecutors do. As for fear of being called racist, well some police officers complained when they noticed something was happening, and were promptly sent to cultural sensitivity training.
In general the heuristic of not trusting mainstream media reports to accurately reflect reality is well based on what I know about how it works.
I gave enough interviews to have an idea of how what the journalist writes differs from what was said in the interview in those cases.
I frequently read reports on scientific studies that don’t match reality.
In the past I knew the background of quite a bunch of political stories in Berlin and how it differs from facts on the ground.
Without a direction to the bias that’s a universal counterargument. I’m perfectly aware of some the biases in reporting, my heuristics say that the media is likely underreporting the extent of the problem.
It’s a universal counterargument when a newspaper stories that don’t appear to make sense and you don’t know the facts on the ground. You shouldn’t believe those stories.
I haven’t said anything about biases of reporting. I have spoken about journalists getting stories wrong. That quite often doesn’t have anything to do with bias. Journalists in Berlin from time to time get the idea that it’s the parliament and only the parliament that passes laws in Berlin wrong. That doesn’t have anything to do with left or right bias.
Thinking in terms of bias isn’t useful. My basic sense was that the story likely involves some form of corruption that didn’t make it into the news articles I read. Garbage in Garbage out. You can’t correct bad reporting by correcting for bias.
A police officer doesn’t simply avoid persecuting a Muslim for rape because he’s afraid of being called a racist. That simply doesn’t make sense. On the other hand corruption can prevent crimes from being persecuted.
The UK is not a country where a newspaper can freely report on a story like this. But not because of multiculturalism. You can’t sue a newspaper in the UK for that. The UK’s insane defamation laws result in articles speaking about “influential Pakistani councilors” instead of naming the individuals in question. A US newspaper would have never done this and actually named the politicians who seem to have obstructed a rape investigation if this happened in any US city.
Of course you actually need to practice critical reading to get that. If you just take the story at face value and then try to correct a systematic bias you miss the juicy bits.
Given that the newspaper is effectively censored in speaking about the real story about corruption they make up a bullshit story about how it’s multiculturalism that makes police officers afraid to go after Muslims. That’s not to say that multiculturalism didn’t do anything in that case. It reduced the reporting of the fact that the people were Muslim, but it very likely didn’t prevent them from being persecuted.
People make decisions at the margin, and it’s entirely possible that the additional negative effect of being accused of racism pushes him over the edge in decisionmaking.
First of all, police officers don’t prosecute anyone, prosecutors do. As for fear of being called racist, well some police officers complained when they noticed something was happening, and were promptly sent to cultural sensitivity training.