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The world has more than enough journalists and exceptionally few reporters.
by AcerbicZero 5y ago
The world has more than enough journalists and exceptionally few reporters.
- lr4444lr 5y agoCan't upvote this enough.
- syshum 5y agoThe world has more than enough activists, opinion writers, and propagandists that call themselves "journalists" but exceptionally few actual journalists. Lets not degrade the word Journalists like Apple has degraded the word Genius....
- afavour 5y agoSome exacerbated by every recent trend, it seems. Every “I’m starting a Substack!” story seems to be for someone that’s going to post endless reams of their opinions and not do an ounce of actual original reporting. I know Glenn Greenwald won a Pulitzer but it wasn’t for the kind of writing he posts now.
- femiagbabiaka 5y agoCompletely wrong. Actually, there’s an iceberg effect at play here. There are many more reporters than journalists, delivering pure news every day, doing in-depth reporting. And it makes sense logically: the number of people who have large enough audiences to generate an income by simply being controversial is rather small in the large scheme of things.
- reaperducer 5y agopeople who have large enough audiences to generate an income by simply being controversial That is neither journalism, nor reporting. That is editorial.
- femiagbabiaka 5y agoIt can be all three at the same time. Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss are two figures on opposite sides of the political spectrum who have both mastered this.
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- slg 5y agoThe internet has commoditized facts. It doesn't matter who reports the news as it is everywhere in minutes as soon as it breaks. There is little to no reward for being first. The financial incentives therefore all push these companies into more profitable areas of journalism outside of reporting.
- ethbr0 5y agoWords are commoditized. Veracity and context are not. A journalist's job is to be accurate and communicate most of a complex topic concisely. I'd argue the internet is pretty bad at that, for any sudden news event.