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IMHO, journalism is slowly dying. These days you find more "opinion-based" or "make-it-viral" news pieces than proper investigative journalism. Services like th
by CodeSheikh 8y ago
IMHO, journalism is slowly dying. These days you find more "opinion-based" or "make-it-viral" news pieces than proper investigative journalism. Services like this can help but at the same time they can create further segregation of true news vs poor news if most of the critics start growing to be biased.
- wsc981 8y agoI agree, I feel many times you can get more solid news from sources like Twitter. Especially how Western media covered Syria annoyed me to no end. To me the news coverage in my country seemed mainly aligned with Western political interests. But I was happy to be able to follow at least 2 journalists [0][1] that were "on the ground" in Syria for some good solid investigative reporting. --- [0]: https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa [1]: https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoJournalism costs money. If it is funded by ads, then getting more eyeballs onto the ads is going to trump good journalism every time.