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Originally Posted by Baler
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Journalism Use to be....
Someone takes a certain idea and they present the facts and allow the reader to determine how they feel about a given subject. Allowing the reader to determine their own view based on the facts presented. Across Party lines and across political lines. They present the facts in an honest and straight forward manner. Then people develop their own opinion based on what they see. Being a free thinker and a level headed approach.
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I would have replied earlier, being a consummate fan of 'journalism' and working in a parent field, however I insinuated in a previous post that a fictitious person named Boqueesha Jefferson couldn't spell her own name and was given a vacation because people make assumptions about skin color based on people's names. That's racist I think. I guess it wasn't understood that "Boqueesha" was most likely
white and Jewish.
What is with this Dolezaling? Is it like
Lou Reed explained just bored white people trying to stir up some drama and excitement in their lives?
Ahhh, journalism. Another lie. When you write "Journalism Use to be...." you are repeating Journalism Propaganda. That's because Paley and Cronkite and others said it over and over with gravitas. They wanted to believe maybe, or they were just lying cynics, doesn't matter. Think of this image; the breathless newspapermen running to the telephone bank to get their story to the editors who yell hold the presses out their office door because the story has to be told.
That never happens except in old Hollywood movies. Or on TV shows, or in self-serving accounts written about themselves.
It's just like the Nazis. When you think about the Nazis you picture the Nuremberg Rally, with all those people in rows and the flags, and then during the war rows of tanks driving on and shooting stuff and stormtroopers piling out of halftracks with machineguns. But that's because you're watching clips from Triumph Of The Will and other propaganda and training films they made themselves. It's the only record out there so it becomes reality. In truth the Germans had very few tanks, their infantry walked through the mud as their artillery was pulled by horses. They were just like any other army. They only did good in the beginning because they were fighting reservists without radios, and after that they were just getting their asses kicked for like 3 years straight and the only reason it took so long is because there was a lot of Germans to grind through. But the Hitler War Machine mystique lives on.
The newspaper was never an organ of disseminating information. First and foremost the newspaper, and later radio and television were businesses that generate revenue through direct sales and advertising. The copy is there to accomplish the goal. It literally does not matter what you write as long as people continue to buy and watch. There is no real sanction. There is no authority or standards or anything. If anyone sues then you have them sign something that tells them to cash the check and shut the fuck up and that's it. Otherwise you cry First Amendment and if you know anything about the US libel laws then you know that once your name has appeared in the media then any subsequent mentions can just be full of slander because hey you're now a limited-purpose public figure.
Our media has flat out
lied in order to start wars because wars are great news and great news sells a lot of advertising.
The stuff you write, the stuff I quote above, that's a great ideal. That would be
awesome if that was actually happening. Oh yeah, I mean there are some outlets that profess 'nothing but the news' but in the end they are staffed by people who have opinions and absolutely zero consequences for lying their asses off. They can get a new twitter handle and a new domain name if the shame becomes too great and it's like nothing has ever happened.
There is no journalism. Only Zuul and manipulation.