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Why all this hate on journalists and newspapers? It is a demanding and very underpaid profession and the whole industry is squeezed. A few owners sadly own lar
by estaseuropano 6y ago
Why all this hate on journalists and newspapers? It is a demanding and very underpaid profession and the whole industry is squeezed.
A few owners sadly own large parts of the media and push an agenda, but I really do not want to imagine a world where newspapers don't exist anymore. They are not perfect and its easy to criticise articles after the fact, but its incredibly difficult to pump out timely and relevant news.
There often is no single truth but rather many perspectives and I don't think we can expect a journalist paid a barely livable wage and working long hours to keep up the highest quality standards every day all day.
Please have some respect for the role this media plays, holding authority to account and getting by and large useful and correct information to the public. That doesn't mean you need to trust every written word, but comments like yours that newspapers are not/don't try most of the time to be honest and fair is simply not correct or fair.
- BeetleB 6y agoYou appear to be attributing a position and an intention to the parent, and then attacking it. The attribution does not seem warranted.
- chrisco255 6y agoThey don't hold authority to account unless it is the opposite party of the side they represent. As you said, a few owners control virtually all of corporate media. And those owners are not unbiased. And those owners and the people they hire in management have agendas. And that trickles all the way down to the newsroom floor, just like it does in any company. At any rate, journalism needs a business model revamp for the 21st century. Substack is part of the answer, but other things need to be tried too.