What Happened To Journalism?

[douglas1999]

You guessed it: Frank Stallone

[douglas1999]

I often wonder if some of these posts come from an AI quote generator

[JurisDictum]

there's a poster here i know very intimately who thinks my husband (JurisDictum) is not a real separate consciousness. there are also a number of ppl who put me in this storyline "absorbing" Juris who believe i run many accounts here, for instance Patriam and Teppler and other right wingers. Some of them know Juris is real cause they met him and me IRL but they still think I am masterminding other personas. I guess what we can all agree on is I am so smart and prolific that it's mysterious and sexy no matter how transparent I am (very)

i also got really kind of insanely good looking in the last 3 years and ppl don't really believe it when i post pics lol but yeahhh just another AVVERAGE~XD

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[JurisDictum]

it's okay mad-senpais, for a last resort reach-judgment you can just decide i am "crazy" and or "mean"

(i am really nice though [except i throw tantrums when my drug balance is upset...i apologize a lot and freely. but look at these scars dude lol.])

PS i am a useless crippled drug addict, i was only a tech executive for about five minutes, it's not that braggable not sure why the inferiority complexes. (there does that help?)

[SiP]

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[JurisDictum]

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i lost the spelling bee i was in to this rich beautiful German boy who became a champion swimmer

the word was camouflage. it was b4 i played eq. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i spelled it like camoflauge. god

[Woke Locc]

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i lost the spelling bee i was in to this rich beautiful German boy who became a champion swimmer

the word was camouflage. it was b4 i played eq. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i spelled it like camoflauge. god

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[Ahldagor]

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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.

Profit motive won out like with most things. Media outlets are a business, and analytics is fine tuning that business. They know how much of a market they need to survive and profit, so there's no incentive to expand or present unbiased publications. It's all well and in accordance with the law, so what's the issue?

[BlackBellamy]

Here's a typical example if you need to understand what happened to journalism.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/studen...asnt-murdered/

In a “letter from the editors” published Monday, the News laid out its grievances against Griffin, who joined as its advisor earlier this month, and demanded her firing as a condition of their return.

The signatories – reportedly 43 out of about 50 newspaper staff – also demanded a reader and staff boycott of the News until Griffin is removed.

One of the incidents involve Griffin’s alleged attempt to stop the News from using the word “murder” to describe the death of Breonna Taylor.

The New York Times notes that Griffin was following standard journalistic practice at several news organizations, which reserve the word “murder” for homicide convictions.

The 43 staff are offended that Griffin has “[r]epeatedly stated that anyone offended by her words was simply being sensitive” and that taking offense was a poor fit in journalism.

They accused her of ignoring “reporters’ personal safety at protests” by telling them to cover breaking local news; “[r]efus[ing] to concede that people interviewed and photographed would want to be anonymous for safety reasons”; trying to edit out “trigger warnings on articles on sexual assault”; and asserting the mainstream view in journalism just a few years ago that “racism is a matter of subjectivity.”

It just goes on and on, I encourage you to read the whole thing.

It's there in a nutshell: Journalism today is not the telling of the news. It's having a giant website/tv station/newpaper/magazine to tell your own opinion and personal story in advance of whatever cause you're championing.

[BlackBellamy]

Another example:

https://www.insidehighered.com/views...-wrote-opinion

This guy wrote an innocent article about why America is better off with college football. You don't have to read it, believe me it's terribly written but it's completely anodyne. Yay for college football.

Well, something happened. Someone or ones got to him. Explained to him how wrong he was, what a racist he was, and how he should grovel and apologize.

And grovel he did.

It's an epic grovel.

If you're familiar with the denunciation and confession culture of authoritarian/communist countries, his writing can be taken directly from some Chinese professor in the 1950's groveling before the Red Brigades right before his execution.

I'm going to quote the entire thing here in case it gets deleted in the source. It's worth reading.

Try to understand what kind of person you have to be or what kind of pressure you have to endure in order to produce something so fucking awful it makes me shudder just looking at it:

It doesn’t. I was wrong. And even worse, I was uninformed, ignorant and harm inducing.

I recently led a piece in Inside Higher Ed titled “Why America Needs College Football.” I am sorry for the hurt, sadness, frustration, fatigue, exhaustion and pain this article has caused anyone, but specifically Black students in the higher education community and beyond.

I am struggling to find the words to communicate the deep ache for the damage I have done. I don’t want to write anything that further deepens the pain experienced by my ignorance related to Black male athletes and the Black community at any time, but especially in light of the national racial unrest. I also don’t want to write anything that suggests that antiracist learning is quick or easy. This is the beginning of a very long process, one that started with learning about the empirical work related to Black college football athletes.

Rather than make excuses, I should talk about which facets of the article that I have recently learned are harmful -- through my students, wider social media community and distinguished academics like Donna Ford, Joy Gaston Gayles and Gilman Whiting.

I learned that I could have titled the piece “Why America Needs Black Athletes.” I learned that Black men putting their bodies on the line for my enjoyment is inspired and maintained by my uninformed and disconnected whiteness and, as written in my previous article, positions student athletes as white property. I have learned that I placed the onus of responsibility for democratic healing on Black communities whose very lives are in danger every single day and that this notion of “democratic healing” is especially problematic since the Black community can’t benefit from ideals they can’t access. I have learned that words like “distraction” and “cheer” erase the present painful moments within the nation and especially the Black community.

Upon such beginnings of reflection, I have also learned that my love for Black athletes on the field doesn’t translate into love within the larger community -- that I have been dismissive of Black lives in moments not athletically celebrated. I have learned that I have taken pleasure in events that ask Black athletes to put their bodies on the line and take physical risks. I have been entertained by Black men who often are conditioned by society and structural racism in ways that lure them into athletics where the odds of making it are slim to none.

I am just beginning to understand how I have harmed communities of color with my words. I am learning that my words -- my uninformed, careless words -- often express an ideology wrought in whiteness and privilege. I am learning that my commitment to diversity has been performative, ignoring the pain the Black community and other communities of color have endured in this country. I am learning that I am not as knowledgeable as I thought I was, not as antiracist as I thought I was, not as careful as I thought I was. For all of these, I sincerely apologize.

I know it’s not anyone’s job to forgive me, but I ask for it -- another burden of a white person haunted by his ignorance. To consider the possible hurt I have played a role in, the scores of others whose pain I didn’t fully see, aches inside me -- a feeling different and deeper than the tears and emotions I’ve experienced being caught in an ignorant racist moment.

To all communities of color and especially the Black community, I am sorry for causing pain by ignoring yours. I really hate the idea of hurting anyone. I hate that I have done this: if I had not ignored the pain of so many, this article would have never been written. I hate that my students have to carry my ignorant racist energy with them at all times. I hate that I brought a graduate student into this space with me as a co-author: Musbah Shaheen, I am sorry. I hate the fact that I have hurt my colleagues at Ohio State and the field of higher education, especially Black scholars whose careers have been spent studying Black lives. I am sorry for ignoring your scholarship. I hate that I have let down my Black friends and friends of color, whom I love.

I am immeasurably grateful to the grace extended by Donna, Joy and Gilman and for their willingness to work with me on these issues. I know they are taking a risk by partnering with me on this pathway. I know that they are carrying a burden by even taking any time with me. I want to thank them.

To really begin the long process of antiracist learning, I am designing a plan for change, for turning the “I am sorry” to “I will change” -- for moving Black Lives Matter from a motto to a pathway from ignorance and toward authentic advocacy. To do this, a colleague of mine asked me to center the question: What can I do to unlearn patterns that hurt and harm Black communities and other communities of color? My center is as a learner, so movement for me will involve unlearning and relearning by listening, reading, dialoguing, reflecting and writing as a means for increasing my awareness and knowledge about systemic racism and the experiences of people of color and people who hold marginalized identities different from my own. I need time to reflect on the specifics of this plan, which includes accountability measures, and I am hoping news media like Inside Higher Ed will consider working with me and others on pieces that come from its enaction.

To be clear, no one should ever put their bodies on the line for entertainment. To be clear, football -- like COVID-19 -- places Black bodies at disproportional risk. To be clear, experts are not immune to ignorance. To be clear, no one can be antiracist and ignore Black pain and that of other communities of color.

You want to be a journalist? You want to publish articles? Wouldn't want anything to happen to your job, or your home, or anything. Why don't you just write this...