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Way back I remember when everyone knew newspapers were dying. Some people thought it was new competition with tv news. Other people thought bullshit sales tacti
by sleepysysadmin 6y ago
Way back I remember when everyone knew newspapers were dying. Some people thought it was new competition with tv news. Other people thought bullshit sales tactics by newspapers pushed people away.
Then I saw the aggregated news feeds of google. I learnt exactly why journalism was dying. They outright publish known lies. https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/794617569823064068 https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/794617569823064068
Anyone who has ever been in the news will tell you that the news always gets the story wrong. The scale of the news is vast. if you analyze every instance of journalism you will find it's entirely false. Whether or not this is intentional is unclear. Hanlon's razor suggests that journalists are probably just stupid. Which is quite true.
You might ask, why is journalism so bad in the last 10 years? STEM. We have pulled talent out of social sciences leaving the bottom of the barrel in journalism.