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I do not deny being prejudiced as it my opinion. Prejudice is merely incomplete information that people rely on to make decisions when cost of more information

I do not deny being prejudiced as it my opinion. Prejudice is merely incomplete information that people rely on to make decisions when cost of more information exceeds the benefit. Yes, you are right that may be top 1% of journalists actually get to speak to an elected Senator on regular basis but these top 1% have an army of junior folks who would bend over backwards for a minor favour from their bosses. An political patrons are not always the politicians but also the lobbyists such as Planned Parenthood, NRA, Monsanto, NAACP, Teachers Union, Climate Change Supporters, Climate Change Skeptics and so on. > you just haven't known a lot of journalists. Are you saying the vast majority of journalists currently employed have more soul in the game than the independent bloggers and youtube channel owners who take one niche issue focus just on that ? Are you telling me that working with some big name in media actually makes you better than people are just committed out of their passion ?

justin66 8y ago
One doesn't need to attempt to delegitimatize professional journalists in order to stick up for independent or new media, or bloggers. I don't think the distinctions you're making in the questions you asked there are even useful (plenty of professionals focus on a niche, plenty of bloggers are affiliated with a "big name" in media today, etc.). I guess the answer to your questions is "no, I'm not saying those things." I think maybe Taleb's critique is perhaps meant to be aimed at the sort of elite tier of celebrity journalists, who are pretty easy to dislike. I tend to think the critique is way too heavy-handed, though. There's a great deal of crap being produced today but, if we're candid about it, in terms of pure volume there's more high-quality reporting today than there has ever been. People are fatigued by the effort of filtering out the garbage but it's intellectually lazy to dismiss the whole thing.
- Karishma1234 8y ago
  I am not attempting. Mainstream journalism has indeed become mostly irrelevant and self serving betraying the very principles they are supposed to uphold. That is my point. There are some wonderful journalist as well but they are mostly the exceptions.

justin66 8y ago

One doesn't need to attempt to delegitimatize professional journalists in order to stick up for independent or new media, or bloggers. I don't think the distinctions you're making in the questions you asked there are even useful (plenty of professionals focus on a niche, plenty of bloggers are affiliated with a "big name" in media today, etc.). I guess the answer to your questions is "no, I'm not saying those things." I think maybe Taleb's critique is perhaps meant to be aimed at the sort of elite tier of celebrity journalists, who are pretty easy to dislike. I tend to think the critique is way too heavy-handed, though. There's a great deal of crap being produced today but, if we're candid about it, in terms of pure volume there's more high-quality reporting today than there has ever been. People are fatigued by the effort of filtering out the garbage but it's intellectually lazy to dismiss the whole thing.

Karishma1234 8y ago
I am not attempting. Mainstream journalism has indeed become mostly irrelevant and self serving betraying the very principles they are supposed to uphold. That is my point. There are some wonderful journalist as well but they are mostly the exceptions.