• @SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    443 months ago

    This is disappointing for Rossman. I like his content a lot and he’s on the right page, but I think he’s big enough that he needs to start adopting some journalistic standards. For example, if he reads that some company is doing something stupid, at least bothered to call them and ask for a comment before he drags them through the mud on his channel.

    • @JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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      223 months ago

      Yeah, I generally trust him but he can be quick to accusations. I can understand why, especially when a company behaves badly. It’s almost expected that companies are going to make their shit worse. But definitely needs to follow up and recant.

    • Buelldozer
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      193 months ago

      Rossman is a modern day Ralph Nader; he lives on outrage and the money it generates. He’s generally correct but when he swings and misses, like he did in this case, it hurts his reputation.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        he lives on outrage and the money it generates

        I don’t think he makes much from YouTube, and he’s said as much. He just uses it as a platform to push pro-Right to Repair sentiment, and he’s right way more often than he’s not (with a healthy dose of hyperbole most of the time). Any miss here is because he didn’t bother doing a bunch of research, because he doesn’t really have an incentive to do so.

        He owns a repair business and works for FUTO, that’s where his money comes from.

    • @corodius@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      I used to like and trust him, but he has gone way off the deepend of jumping to accusations for clickbait, exactly as this shows. It is sad because of how much he has fought for our rights, but sometimes I wonder if it is all getting to him.

    • fmstrat
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      33 months ago

      It will be interesting if he follows his own statements and issues a public apology video titled appropriately.