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In the 1990's? You'd have thought that'd be far enough removed from the current journalism climate to still have some level of ethics and professionalism. I go

In the 1990's? You'd have thought that'd be far enough removed from the current journalism climate to still have some level of ethics and professionalism. I got into journalism in 2009, three years after Craigslist began killing print ad revenue and right before clickbait conflagrated from Gawker and its four (five?) horsemen of the apocalypse. Journalism is in a sorry state these days. Newspapers of record in towns are thin as a toothpick and the only people who can survive at the national/international level tend to be bored upper-middle class rich people with an agenda (conservative or liberal, doesn't matter). If you don't have an agenda that aligns with the publisher/editor (and the readership) they don't want you. I tried to be a neutral, professional reporter and all it did was leave a bad taste in my mouth.

duxup 7y ago
I feel like there is a real distinction as far as the state of "journalism". I think there are a lot of people doing real good work ethically and professionally. I think there are a lot of people who don't do a good job. The thing is I think most people decided the two dependent on if it fits their point of view... so the whole situation is muddied.
jdougan 7y ago
Nah, it's been terrible for a long time. It was just harder to notice then, unless you were the target du jour, because there wan't much in the way of easily available alternate sources to compare to. In the late 80s in Canada I got exposed to the same problems when a story I was involved in got distorted to hell.