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well it has been claimed that they want to direct the news rather than tell it, as in they want to push what they think is right and that moral imperative is mo

well it has been claimed that they want to direct the news rather than tell it, as in they want to push what they think is right and that moral imperative is more important that presenting the facts. this is what worries me the most about the changes seen in the press, many publications are already bowing to pressure and far too many jump on the vilification bandwagon as if to say "See we know how to act and we agree" without regard to context or much else. cancel culture or whatever you want to call it is hyper destructive and will simply lead to a world where trust is never possible if you wanted to destroy Western civilization you could not do much better than this. McCarthyism is back on the menu.

fullshark 6y ago
Perhaps that is just the weapon of choice to achieve the OP's stated goals, particularly effective in a social media environment outside their jobs where outrage = attention = name recognition.
gremlinsinc 6y ago
The older generation has been canceling pro-socialist speech and agendas for decades, is that okay? How is this any different?
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tsimionescu 6y ago
> well it has been claimed that they want to direct the news rather than tell it, as in they want to push what they think is right and that moral imperative is more important that presenting the facts. This is what the corporate press has always done. There has never been a time where wealthy papers were paying journalists to follow the story and would print whatever they found. These are just nice stories people tell themselves. What's mostly happening right now is a combination of a changing of the guard, with a new generation valuing other moral absolutes than the previous one; and more access to the internals of papers because of freer accesa to information (and misinformation) from social media.

fullshark 6y ago

Perhaps that is just the weapon of choice to achieve the OP's stated goals, particularly effective in a social media environment outside their jobs where outrage = attention = name recognition.

gremlinsinc 6y ago

The older generation has been canceling pro-socialist speech and agendas for decades, is that okay? How is this any different?

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tsimionescu 6y ago

> well it has been claimed that they want to direct the news rather than tell it, as in they want to push what they think is right and that moral imperative is more important that presenting the facts. This is what the corporate press has always done. There has never been a time where wealthy papers were paying journalists to follow the story and would print whatever they found. These are just nice stories people tell themselves. What's mostly happening right now is a combination of a changing of the guard, with a new generation valuing other moral absolutes than the previous one; and more access to the internals of papers because of freer accesa to information (and misinformation) from social media.