10 sats \ 3 replies \ @premitive1 12 Aug 2023 \ on: The Bitcoin knowledge of journalists bitcoin
Just like with all niche categories of news coverage, most journalists covering Bitcoin don't understand it the same as most science journalist don't understand the scientific method, and most tech journalists don't understand technology.
Yep, I remember reading an article science journalist relating how the speaker at a science conference asked a room full of journalists who were there to report on what he was going to say - the speaker asked how many journalists there had a degree in science.
Only three journalists of the hall of reporters raised their hand.
The rest seemingly only had degrees in journalism.
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now extrapolate that to the reality that most of us get our information filtered through people who have no idea what they're talking about.
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Plus, I guess it's even weirder in political reporting. At least science journalists (with no science background) speaking with experts on their subject.
Politicians, on the other hand, jump from one diverse department to another - they're no Renaissance-men - and we put our lives in their hands.
Now add out-of-their depth journalists to the mix and Houston, we've got a problem...
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