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Thank you for both replies. I have been hit hard with work (I'm building my own house and work full time) so it's been hard to formulate a response and research. What I was going to do is try to email all of these journalists and ask for their honest opinion about the story. That's it.

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I think you have interest in knowing what reporting is trustworthy and what is not. I'd like to showcase what good-faith journalism looks like.

It's an episode where This American Life got it wrong; they aired a story that wasn't truthful as delivered.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/460/retraction

This episode details what happened when factual errors were brought to their attention. It's what good-faith journalists do and I think you'll recognize that.

Going forward:

     When a story generates a strong response in you,
     I urge you to consider whether the source of that story
     can be trusted to perform good faith journalism,
     (comparable to what's done in the TAL link above).

A good faith journalist can put out high or low quality content, mostly depending on their wisdom and skill.

But a content creator operating in bad faith - all they can do is craft counterproductive, toxic narratives¹.

Before asking others to consume Shirley's content, fully determine that Shirley is acting in good faith. Besides being kind, it's also due diligence.

    ¹(by cherry picking unrelated facts, by disingenuously tying those facts together, by innuendo, by debunked research and by supporting all of it with other bad faith content)

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