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Why is that distinction significant?
by austincheney 6y ago
Why is that distinction significant?
- iscrewyou 6y agoNot op, and it’s not significant. Especially after the authorities are telling the public to not trust the media.
- austincheney 6y agoI, personal opinion, trust the traditional media outlets of broadcast and print (despite some disagreement from some politicians) because there is an ethical standard they challenge each other to uphold. What I don’t trust as a news source is social media where there is no such standard. News from social media just feels like bad gossip.
- jkingsbery 6y agoAlso not OP, but in that one article the violence was indiscriminate, not targeting journalists. James Taranto in his Best of the Web column had a running gag poking fun at articles where lots of people were affected by a problem, but the author dwells on one particular group, under a heading of "World Ends, X hardest hit." Yes, journalists are being affected by recent violence, but so are a lot of other people.
- austincheney 6y agoI just think it would be productive to focus on reducing any violence. I suspect focus on particular groups exists to qualify some artificial us versus them dichotomy.