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Journalists inserting their personal opinions and passing it off as fact, while working to manipulate public opinion of hot button issues for the sake of clicks
by underseacables 6y ago
Journalists inserting their personal opinions and passing it off as fact, while working to manipulate public opinion of hot button issues for the sake of clicks.
- Spivak 6y agoSo I know what you mean but the issue is more complicated than that. The implication is that if only journalists would stop doing inserting their opinions that the problem would go away. This is technically true but also misses the point by a mile. The dry work of journalists hasn’t at all changed. News is just as boring and impartial as it always has been but nobody consumes it. It’s been there the whole time and hasn’t gone away. But television radically disrupted what we call news and proved that what people wanted wasn’t actually news but storytellers who consume the news and present it as a cohesive narrative that has the benefit of context (historical, cultural, political). This is totally rational. It’s why reading news reports and case files about criminals is niche but true crime podcasts are hugely popular. These aren’t and can’t be apolitical in nature but that isn’t the same thing as “injecting opinion into fact” which is something that doesn’t really happen all that often. It’s very rare that you know a journalist’s opinion on a topic (outside of their personal Twitter) but how they assemble a narrative is ultimately informed by their views as an individual.
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- donmcronald 6y agoYeah, and everyone is guilty of it IMO. I would love to see an analysis of news articles over the last few decades where someone counts the adjectives.