Posted on 11/28/2018 8:48:12 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Fake news and poor reportage are major problems today, and obviously the solution is to get a transnational corporation to police the media and educate the next generation of journalistic recruits – right? Facebook apparently thinks so, because the company has just announced a new $6 million scheme to train new reporters in the United Kingdom.
Not satisfied with control over a supersize portion of online communications, the company is setting up the Community News Project – because nothing says “community” like big business stepping in to solve your problems. The scheme proposes to train newspaper journalists in regional locales where print publications have struggled to compete with, yes, social media. That’s right, Facebook stole their business and, not satiated, is now staging a slow takeover of the few traditional outfits still trooping along.
Deal With The Devil The pilot program, set for launch in 2019, will fund 80 “community journalist” positions in the form of a donation to the U.K. National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) charity. The participants will be posted to work in newsrooms belonging to allotted publishers, as well as receiving training for a diploma in journalism.
According to the NCTJ, “The project aims to increase the creation, consumption, and distribution of reliable and relevant community news …. Journalists will be recruited from a range of backgrounds, with the aim of helping make newsrooms more diverse and inclusive.”
“The NCTJ cares deeply about the number, quality, and diversity of journalists working in our local communities,” said Joanne Butcher, the organization’s chief executive. She continued:
“We are very proud to support the sustainability of quality local journalism by overseeing the recruitment of additional local news journalists from diverse and inclusive backgrounds and by ensuring they are properly trained and qualified.”
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Local newspapers are collapsing and the Global Left is scurrying to create a way to fill the vacuum.
They need to be destroyed.
Too late. We lost our Congress. We won’t even bust Huma.
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