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>Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together. What a condescending, paternalistic

>Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together. What a condescending, paternalistic assumption. >Reversing the decline is a monster task — and one that some journalists and news organizations have taken upon themselves. This from a company that tried to whitewash its reputation by editing Wikipedia*. Have they "taking it upon themselves" because their hired guns failed, or do they recognize their guilt? Probably not the latter. * https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikipedia-paid-editing-pr-facebook-nbc-axios_n_5c63321be4b03de942967225 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikipedia-paid-editing-pr-fac...

yellowapple 6y ago
Yep. Transparency is a dependency of trust, and it seems like journalism as an industry has grown allergic to that transparency - which is highly ironic considering that journalism is supposed to foster transparency.
paul_f 6y ago
Whether you agree or not, referring to something generic like this as paternalistic is actually condescending. Let's be careful with the name calling.
- readflaggedcomm 6y ago
  I would gladly call them names all day long. And I have, but not there. "Paternalistic" strictly (and accurately) describes an assertion whereby society's coherence depends on benefactors in glass towers and Greek revival plantations. Not only is their presumption false, it's insulting in a specific, elitist way. There is nothing generic about the priors embedded in this listicle to lead them to conclude that the media must bolster the poor, downtrodden CEOs to keep society's glue from dissolving. I took the high road here, they did not.
  - paul_f 6y ago
    Huh, nevermind, I honestly did not know that definition of paternalistic. My bad, sorry
wtetzner 6y ago
>>Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together. >What a condescending, paternalistic assumption. And wasn't the design of the US government largely driven by a distrust in government?

yellowapple 6y ago

Yep. Transparency is a dependency of trust, and it seems like journalism as an industry has grown allergic to that transparency - which is highly ironic considering that journalism is supposed to foster transparency.

paul_f 6y ago

Whether you agree or not, referring to something generic like this as paternalistic is actually condescending. Let's be careful with the name calling.

readflaggedcomm 6y ago
I would gladly call them names all day long. And I have, but not there. "Paternalistic" strictly (and accurately) describes an assertion whereby society's coherence depends on benefactors in glass towers and Greek revival plantations. Not only is their presumption false, it's insulting in a specific, elitist way. There is nothing generic about the priors embedded in this listicle to lead them to conclude that the media must bolster the poor, downtrodden CEOs to keep society's glue from dissolving. I took the high road here, they did not.
- paul_f 6y ago
  Huh, nevermind, I honestly did not know that definition of paternalistic. My bad, sorry

wtetzner 6y ago

>>Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together. >What a condescending, paternalistic assumption. And wasn't the design of the US government largely driven by a distrust in government?