Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
There is news and there is discussion.

I 100% stand by everything we have ever reported as news.


Nobody is claiming social media is a good substitute for traditional journalism. But there is plenty of hard news from OKCTalk, FreePressOKC, Oklahoma Watch, The Frontier and NonDoc. And should the Oklahoman go away, even more of this type of true local journalism will flourish. There is very little about the Oklahoman that is local at all.

And you're kidding yourself if you don't think through bias and agenda-pushing the Oklahoman hasn't engaged in more slanted and harmful reporting than all the other media sites in this state combined. A huge amount of the deep issues in Oklahoma can be directly tied to their agendas (underfunded education, etc.).

To this very day, they continue to print tons of 'news' that is not backed with any sort of objective fact-checking.
I was just going to say the first sentence pete, OKC Talk has a news function AND a discussion function. The news function is subject to the same if not better/higher journalism standards as the traditional media, most if not all of the time OKC is unbiased with the possible exception of being pro-OKC which we'd expect. The discussion forum, however, can be biased or bs (as you called it) because it takes feedback from the general public in a discussion forum. This was the original OKC Talk yet it has evolved thanks to Pete and team into a true journalism source. The Oklahoman used to have a discussion forum too (I was one of the original members back in the 1990s) yet they got rid of it and OKC Talk was born.