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On an aside...maybe it’s just me, but being a journalist on Twitter and sharing your personal opinions / philosophies / politics seems like a bad idea to me. W
by dlivingston 7y ago
On an aside...maybe it’s just me, but being a journalist on Twitter and sharing your personal opinions / philosophies / politics seems like a bad idea to me.
We trust journalists - the standard, non-opinion column ones - to be something of an impartial, truth-telling messenger on the state of the world.
When I go on a journalist’s Twitter page and see that she’s a staunch Marxist or hardcore Randian libertarian, I can’t help but wonder if that strong bias has seeped into her articles...both in what she’s writing to me, and in what she’s omitting.
- busterarm 7y agoTrusting journalists in 2020.
- blackflame7000 7y ago"We trust journalists" - you might be wise to not do that blindly. Journalist get paid from somebody.
- type0 7y ago> I can’t help but wonder if that strong bias has seeped into her articles...both in what she’s writing to me, and in what she’s omitting. They would do that regardless, now at least you can find out their biases.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoA lot of journalists cite pressure from their employers to be online and "engaged." I think it's probably a bad idea -- possibly in general, but particularly for journalists/columnists -- to say anything on Twitter that you wouldn't say in an an article or column. That doesn't necessarily preclude sharing opinions, philosophies, and politics, but it definitely entails a certain measure of restraint.