Posted on 11/16/2024 6:18:07 PM PST by DoodleBob
…Even after the creation of the World Wide Web and web browsers, for many years readers of news largely found it on journalism websites, where information was handpicked by professional editors. Now, half of adult Americans get their news from social media (Pew Research center 2023) often curated—that is, selected, organized, interpreted, and presented—by their family and friends.
“The editors are being replaced by just people posting whatever they want, so it’s loss of a professional standard about what counts,” explains Stephen Ansolabehere, a government professor at Harvard University. “What is being lost is the idea that people trust an entity, like The [New York] Times, The [Washington] Post, or The Guardian, and instead, the trust relationship in terms of the veracity of the story or the quality of this content is [that] your aunt or your best friend sent it to you.”
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“The United States is an extreme outlier in the nearly complete reliance on commercial forms of journalism, whereas in northwestern Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan, there are very significant public service provisions, and also often reasonably significant indirect subsidies for private publishers that cushion journalism from the full force of creative destruction that’s been unleashed,” Nielson says.
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States are also experimenting with public policies and funding to support local news. In April, the New York State Legislature passed a bill to provide tax credits to “incentivize hiring and retaining local journalists”
…“There’s also legislation pending in New York, California, and Illinois that would require big tech to compensate local news organizations for use of their content,” Franklin says…
..the push for legislation to better protect the industry, is encouraging.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebulletin.org ...
Indeed, in the current edition of this “magazine” one article starts:
The United States is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump, a candidate who has flaunted his desire for autocracy—aided and abetted by a Republican-controlled Congress that will not constrain him with guardrails—the United States is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests. It is now, in short, a petrostate.
This rag, along with Scientific American where their editor resigned after a hate-filled anti-Trump social media rant, are prime examples of why journalism has become the second oldest profession.
WaPo is owned by Bezos.
NYT was bailed out by a Mexican billionaire with alleged cartel ties.
MSM is the propaganda arm of the oligarchy.
They want to shut up anyone questioning the ruling elites as they hate free speech, our First Amendment, and our countries as they see themselves as globalists - one world government that’ll eventually be under the control of the Antichrist.
We are nationalists. We recognize America’s unique role in history. We are capable of reason and debate.
They are in darkness and do the works of their father, Satan.
So yeah. Will be conflict.
most of adult Americans get their news from liberal media, selected, organized, interpreted, and presented—by the liberal family and friends.
Journalism is today, far less honorable than the world’s oldest profession.
“””:”“The editors are being replaced by just people posting whatever they want, so it’s loss of a professional standard about what counts,” explains Stephen Ansolabehere, a government professor at Harvard University.”””
Such whining from the so-called elite who no longer can ignore important news or propagandize news to fit their opinion as to how people should think.
It looks to me that we are taking down two institutions. The media and the universities. What could be the problem with that?
And the result of Liberal Media is people shooting at Trump or chopping their father up with an axe.
This doesn’t just sound insane. It sounds like the CIA is using the Media for a giant MK-Ultra experiment to see what damage could be caused.
“The peasants are communicating and thinking without our control.
The Ministry of Truth must be given rendition and extreme interrogation powers!”
Not really sure how this journal became a thing.
I know lots of scientists, some astonshingly brillant
In their specialized fields. Some with multiple degrees.
I dont listen to them about politics anymore than I listen to Pop music divas, or any talking puppet heads.
Back in the early 70s, after a four-year stint in the US Navy, I graduated with honors from one of the nation’s top journalism programs and embarked on a 40-year career in newspaper journalism. In the late 70s and mid-80s the media companies, under the banner of diversity, mistakenly chose advocacy instead, so if a newspaper needed someone to cover feminism, they hired a feminist reporter. To cover gay issues, they hired gays. This led most major publishers to adopt an agenda that favored advocacy over truth and the trend never stopped. Newsrooms began to see themselves as agents of progressive change instead of neutral arbiters presenting both sides of every argument in the best possible light and allowing an informed readership to make the choice.
Precisely.
It’s a REPUBLIC. Democracies are evil.
These hacks shill for the democrat party. That's their 'professional standard'? LOL - what a joke. The MSM is disgraceful and compromised - almost no one trusts them.
The MSM is failing because they DESERVE TO FAIL.
I lost trust in those publications long ago and my Tagline is still accurate.
The “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” has NEVER been about science. It has ALWAYS been a leftie propaganda rag.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is not a bulletin of atomic scientists; it is well known as a screed of Marxist scientists.
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