Is the farming press contributing to stress and anxiety?

[Henarar]

Up until 15 years ago I suffered unknowingly from Dunning-Kruger syndrome, where I thought that most other people knew far more than me about most things.

I am buggered if you haven't changed in the last 15 years then

 

[Two Tone]

I heard that. I've always noticed that any journalistic articles about anything that I know well are often (not always) very inaccurate indeed. Therefore it must follow that similar proportion on everything that I don't know much about must be similarly inaccurate.
Therefore, don't believe too much of any of what you read in the press.

I couldn’t agree with you more. Almost every single time I see, hear or read about anything I actually now something about, the media seem to get it wrong.

So it follows that every thing I don’t know anything about is almost certainly wrong too!

I’ve toyed for years about cancelling my FW. I just find most of it so depressing.
The only bit I do read is the Farmer Focus sections because they are written by real farmers. TFF now fills this spot far better for me.

As for the BBC news, don’t get me started about Laura Kuenssberg!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I have a friend who worked in TV news for many years (Marcus Powell if anyone every saw his reports). He left the industry ten years ago. He was ageing, getting very jaded and couldn't square the collapsing quality of journalism with his conscience. He explained that in his earlier years he would be backed by a cameraman, on site producer and 2 or 3 office researcher/fact checkers. By the time he left he was working to ever shorter deadlines alone (even filming himself) and this was for mainstream TV!

I suspect print journalists have a similar tale to tell