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I think we need to give professional journalists the benefit of the doubt and assume they studied journalism at university and the fact that what they learned i
by davidhyde 8y ago
I think we need to give professional journalists the benefit of the doubt and assume they studied journalism at university and the fact that what they learned is the correct way of doing journalism. Just like computer scientists go to university and learn how to write software properly. What I think happens in reality is that people with no journalism training call the shots by setting the budget and direction in these news agencies. This introduces the bias these journalists have training to actively avoid. Must be very frustrating for them.
Of cource, just like software developers with no formal training, there are plenty of news writers with no formal training either. And just like developers, these journalists can self learn proper journalism themselves or hack it and give a bad name to other journalists.
- malvosenior 8y agoYou can follow these journalists directly on Twitter and see that they have amazing bias that they are not ashamed about promoting. After all, the NYT hired someone who has hundreds of anti-white, anti-male tweets to be on their editorial board and to act as their head technology editor. Whatever they learned in school is taking back seat to pushing an agenda.