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Not sure how to explain the lack of journalism being an issue but I would say that there's abundant information, not news. It used to be that a person can only
by Joakal 7y ago
Not sure how to explain the lack of journalism being an issue but I would say that there's abundant information, not news. It used to be that a person can only get news from several sources, now with Internet, we find so much more sources! The trouble is that sources are shrinking but we don't notice it due to the abundant information or re-distributors of news. As in, global amount of original sources are shrinking every year (aside from PRs).
So, while you're seeing more sources personally, it's actually getting harder to get the fine details and local news all over world because information is so cheap to distribute. My suggestions essentially offer a platform for distribution and paid defacto journalists (politicians).
- roenxi 7y agoMaybe, but also consider that there were very few voices with a platform speaking out. One possibility is that people were more confident of their wrong opinions in the past and now it is obvious when people are fabricating. I'd bet there were great journalists of the past who would simply look like imaginative liars today because we can very easily fact check them. The world is huge, complicated and scary. Any perception that there is a team of people out there understanding it for us is a comforting illusion but ultimately not much more than that. 30 years ago I would probably have struggled to compare media reporting of what a politician said to what a transcript but today that is no trouble at all. This newfound capability has trashed my trust in any political journalist.