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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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Ok how are you fact checking, are you finding people with expertise and contacting them or googling and using whatever shite websites come up as a source? If the latter, how are you verifying the veracity of those sources?
And yes sources are required but that doesn't mean that's ALL that's required or you wouldn't have newspapers or organisations, just some people calling themselves journalists that have a bunch of sources, but nobody knows what for because they've never produced a piece of journalism for them to be of use.
The idea used to be that you find a news source that is the most reliable. Now half the world just finds the one that confirms their biases the most, and their biases are fucking stupid after decades of lies and education cuts from various rich cunts.
I agree that the existence of sources aren't themselves examples of journalism.
How are you determining/measuring reliability?
Fact checking, obviously.
Using what method? You seemed to be making a point that an "average person" isn't qualified to fact check claims when you said
It depends on the context.