>>12712933The type of people likely to author such comics will then place a massive trust in the rest of institutional media reporting, blissfully adopting the assumption that similarly poor or inaccurate reporting is only this egregious in the subfield of their expertise. Despite their direct experiences with the inaccuracies of science reporters, they will then adopt the position that rhetorical attacks on entities like CNN, the New York Times, or the Washington Post constitute an "attack on freedom of press" concerning political, economic, and social subjects that they do not have any direct data-gathering or analyzing experience with (and sometimes cannot even have in principle, particularly when purportedly anonymous sources are said to divulge purportedly classified information).
