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> So does he think he is unfairly demonised by some journalists and does that rankle? > “I can’t fault them for not getting around to doing the fact-checking.
by OrwellianChild 7y ago
> So does he think he is unfairly demonised by some journalists and does that rankle?
> “I can’t fault them for not getting around to doing the fact-checking. You know people are busy and a lot of people in journalism have been told by their managers that fact-checking may not be critical.”
This is such an understated burn...
I'm truly astonished and confused by the idea that Newmark and Craigslist, by providing a better alternative to the classifieds section, are anti-journalism. To believe this, one must believe that journalism exists only as a happy byproduct of the advertising business that supported newspapers throughout the 20th century - that journalism does not exist as an independent good. Advertising-funded newspapers are a business model tied to a medium - one of many. Journalism is no more tied to them than transportation is tied to the horse and buggy.
- Nasrudith 7y agoReally it is abundantly clear that the conflation is deliberate because their job dependa on it. They are nakedly scapegoating tech and spreading bullshit to support their agenda. Which is why they actually are in decline - they just aren't any good or professional. The only one they like is Twitter which allows them to produce stories very lazily and cheaply as the replacement to "man on the street" interviews instead of any actual substance. What angers me the most really is that they could do so much better yet they decided this has to be their hill to die on.
- influx 7y agoI'm often astonished by the Tweets someone like CNN will pick to justify a story. Someone with a handful of followers with 8 retweets and 2 favorites becomes a headline story. It's sad.
- cameronbrown 7y agoWell that's what they get after writing pointless article after article, with barely the substance of a tweet, trying to gaslight the population into believing what they want them to believe. No wonder they're failing.
- m463 7y agoEbay can only wish they took the heat for this state of affairs.
- purplezooey 7y agoTrue, but also consider that now we got Cambridge Analytica instead. Dark times coming.
- brighter2morrow 7y ago>To believe this, one must believe that journalism exists only as a happy byproduct of the advertising business that supported newspapers throughout the 20th century - that journalism does not exist as an independent good. This is a rather positive view of journalism. Are you a journalist? The approval rate of the journalism industry in the United States right now is at all-time lows https://www.knightfoundation.org/reports/indicators-of-news-media-trust https://www.knightfoundation.org/reports/indicators-of-news-...