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Journos are the new clerics. The western moral compass

• mkr-hn 5y ago
  There's probably a better way to frame this in a context where journalists are increasingly under attack just for doing their jobs. https://cpj.org/2020/12/in-2020-u-s-journalists-faced-unprecedented-attacks/ https://cpj.org/2020/12/in-2020-u-s-journalists-faced-unprec...
  • a1369209993 5y ago
    That (better) framing would probably need to involve making a distinction between legitimate (eg investigative) journalists versus primarily-twitter-covering psuedo-tabloid journalists, which is rather fraught at the best of times, since most authorities (formal or informal) have a obvious incentive to misclassify legitimate journalists as tabloidists, and a less obvious incentive to misclassify tabloids as legitimate journalism. (This gets much worse if you try to do anything material with the distiction, thanks to [0].) Not that it's impossible, but I'm not optimistic. Besides, there were plenty of clergy who were otherwise fairly decent people. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
    • steveBK123 5y ago
      Well it's also hard to blame journalists for writing the kind of stuff that gets clicks, which is what gets them all paid.
      • tarsinge 5y ago
        On the contrary it’s important that they know the damage it do to society.
  • koheripbal 5y ago
    I'm not sure if it's correlated - but journalists have also been doing a far worse job than I've experienced previously.
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    • aliasEli 5y ago
      Due to a decline in income from advertisers many traditional media have fired a lot of journalists. The remaining ones are under great pressure to produce articles. So it is not surprising that the quality of journalism has declined.