A Brief Foray into Substack
Yesterday I became a paid subscriber to a Substack feed that I thought was good. In many ways it is a good one. But this morning I realized that it was probably a bit short on fact. (All Substacks are long on opinion.)
Opinion is fine. We all look for voices that agree with us, There is nothing wrong with that as long as we do two things: Listen for alternative voices to keep ourselves well balanced, and insist that what we do read is factual.
I found myself unsubscribing to this feed this morning, not because I didn’t like the opinion, but because it was not factual. Here is my post to the author
I became a paid subscriber yesterday. I am unsubscribing today. Your reporting today is inaccurate. (I go on to explain the inaccuracy.) I'm sorry to have to do this. I'm sure the pressure to write every day is overwhelming, but that should not be an excuse for mis-reporting. The times we are living through now require careful and accurate reporting even in primairly opinion based pieces. This is especially true for people with a following becuase too many voices today are taking liberties with facts.
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