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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy
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Journalism is writing for newspapers, websites, television, radio, magazines, I guess podcasts too, it's all media. The preparation and delivery of so-called news is a business. You can call yourself a crusader for truth, the paladin of journalism, the Investigative one, but then you write your big expose on Harvey but they sit on it for months and then kill it because someone upstairs knows Harvey. So you can re-write or shop around.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say journalism is separate from media. One is a process within the other.
You might be thinking of bards.
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Your example of why it's bad (harvey was powerful) is an anecdote though. It says nothing about the fact that *different* outlets offer *different* ratios of fact to spin. It's worth figuring out which are more, or less, reliable.
I mean when you have clear cut video of an event happening, and one outlet summarizes essentially what actually happened based on the available video evidence (albeit with their own biased language of course) and another reports the exact opposite despite the video being a control which doesn't change for anyone, it doesn't take much to figure out who is being more honest in that instance. Media is shit broadly, but not all shit is created equal.