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You owe it to yourself, if you are an adult, to find a couple of real news sites, and ask yourself, even then, what their biases are.I used to trust The New York Times. After knowing what I know from self-publishing sites about how things like bestseller lists are manipulated (these sites give actual data which you can check), I don't trust the NYT.
The Washington Post is doing a better job. Bezos doesn't seem to be interfering obviously, and the articles are good.
And you need a magazine or two. We get The Economist. Used to get Newsweek, until its biases started showing and it started acting like a Yahoo front page. Unfortunate.
Alicia wrote: "You owe it to yourself, if you are an adult, to find a couple of real news sites, and ask yourself, even then, what their biases are..."Some good points, Alicia. I think the only way one can get fairly accurate news anymore is to have multiple sources.
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Alicia wrote: "You owe it to yourself, if you are an adult, to find a couple of real news sites, and ask yourself, even then, what their biases are.I used to trust The New York Times. After knowing what I know ..."
I liked what you had to say Alicia. It seems as if everything can be manipulated and is. Makes trust a bigger issue.
Mary wrote: "I liked what you had to say Alicia. It seems as if everything can be manipulated and is. Makes trust a bigger issue."Follow the money. Conflict of interest - accepting ads from big publishers and then reviewing their books in a long-standing hand-in-glove relationship.
Hard to appear honest about books if your company's advertising revenue depends on the publishers being happy with you. I don't know if they are biased, though the 'Bestsellers' lists are easy to manipulate since they are NOT bestsellers in a true sense, but supposedly from reports from a few selected but not named bookstores.
I may be wrong - don't sue me over opinions - but I've read enough questions about how things are done to know I wouldn't do them that way. And the lists have very reluctantly and very slowly allowed a little bit of the indie market to show - in huge contrast with the reports coming from AuthorEarnings.com and the Data Guy every quarter.
They are not handling the digital revolution well.
Jay wrote: "Alicia wrote: "You owe it to yourself, if you are an adult, to find a couple of real news sites, and ask yourself, even then, what their biases are..."Some good points, Alicia. I think the only w..."
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