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> You'd expect journalists to give you facts, instead their focus is on creating emotion through narrative, while rooting for their story, downplaying inconveni
by em500 6y ago
> You'd expect journalists to give you facts, instead their focus is on creating emotion through narrative, while rooting for their story, downplaying inconvenient facts.
Factual news looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events. People don't want to read that, and journalists must to some degree write what people want to read. It's quite the dilemma.
- senkora 6y agoI used to read that in high school for debate class, since we were quizzed weekly on current events. I completely agree, it is not exactly thrilling.
- thu2111 6y agoWell, not really. That page is a collection of current events but they're essentially random, with no filtering or ranking for relevance to the reader. So there's some incident in Azerbaijan related to some conflict with a neighbour, something about a change in the speaker of the house in the Philippines, etc. It's possible for news to both be factual and relevant.
- tupputuppu 6y agoThat's really the most disturbing fact isn't it. That journalism isn't horrible because of media companies, it's horrible because of peoples' tastes.