Why do you believe it’s factual simply from reading the complaint? The Daily Telegraph does no follow-ups, interviews, or fact-checking (what we in the business might call “journalism”). It simply reports on the complaint and cowardly allows you to draw your own conclusions.

So we must ask: why did a right-wing propaganda outlet report this so uncritically? They have a well-established lack of interest in journalism. So what purpose was served by publishing this article and in this way?

This is why I posted it’s a bad source, and this is the problem with bad sources. Even the “factual” articles they publish are purposefully misleading at best… and total misrepresentations at worst.

[–] kabe@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's factual because it accurately reported the claims made in the lawsuit. Journalists do this all the time.

Obviously the Telegraph chose to publish this story because it appeals to the political leanings of their readership, but virtually all newspapers do that to a certain degree.

It seems you have fallen into the trap of automatically dismissing the source/article as "propaganda" because its political viewpoint differs from your own.

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Journalists do this all the time.

No, bad sources do this all the time. Actual journalists from good sources do things like:

Interview people!
Check sources and their reputability!
Discover facts!

Has any of that been done here? Why do you suppose not?

Obviously the Telegraph chose to publish this story because it appeals to the political leanings of their readership, but virtually all newspapers do that to a certain degree.

Because some sources are biased, we must accept a source as massively and obviously biased as the Daily Telegraph? Take your flimsy equivocation fallacies elsewhere. We can draw a line, and that line should certainly exclude places as bad as the Daily Telegraph.

It seems you have fallen into the trap of automatically dismissing the source/article as “propaganda” because its political viewpoint differs from your own.

No... I'm dismissing it because the Daily Telegraph is a bad source and it only publishes articles to serve its own purposes, which have nothing to do with truth or facts. Its political leanings are obviously horrible and idiotic but have nothing to do with the simple fact that they are a bad source.

[–] kabe@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you think journalists routinely delve into extensive, detailed investigations based off a simple press release then I would say you've been watching too many movies.

I somehow doubt that you hold media sources that align with your own political persuasions to such exacting scrutiny.

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 5 points 1 year ago

Did I say anything about an extensive, detailed investigation? Does it appear they did literally any work, even up to and including picking up the nearest telephone and calling… well, basically anyone?

(Here’s a secret, me to you; I bet they did do that and they didn’t like what they uncovered. It’s okay though, they decided not to publish it.)

Not sure what sources I consume have anything to do with the quality of the Daily Telegraph. If I got my daily news from Sesame Street, would that suddenly make the Daily Telegraph an acceptable source?