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Anyone know of efforts to fix this space? Looking for a good excuse to quit my well paid corporate job and make a difference. News today is: - Infotainment - T

Anyone know of efforts to fix this space? Looking for a good excuse to quit my well paid corporate job and make a difference. News today is: - Infotainment - Tribal reinforcement - Irrelevant - Not actionable (and thus, depressing) - Making people think the world is getting worse - Immediate and not well thought out or nuanced In some ways it's their fault, but on the other hand, the modern reader won't pay for news. Maybe it's largely a business model problem? It's literally killing people and needs to be disrupted, fixed.

30kppldievryday 5y ago
Is this satire?
llacb47 5y ago
Your impression of "news today" lacks nuance and does not give me confidence in your ability to "make a difference" in the journalism industry.
- zepto 5y ago
  Seems pretty accurate to me. What part did you disagree with?
fragileone 5y ago
Exploiting psychology on a mass scale like this means that the only solution will be government regulation.
ErikVandeWater 5y ago
I don't have an answer but these two YouTube channels look like what I hope the answer looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_42LVirfNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_42LVirfNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIxhF21qO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIxhF21qO4
jari_mustonen 5y ago
I think is up to personal choices: • Quit subscribing corporate media and subscribe to single reporters that are doing real reporting. • Have zero tolerance for news that mislead you. ”Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” • Try to find reporters that are willing to give you the honest cotext even if it goes against what you expect and does not affirm your believes. If enough people do this, those lying and misleading for profit will go out of business.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  But single reporters seem even more aggressively partisan than corporate. They're often at least fairly explicit about this though - billing themselves as a journalist of the left or of the right or whatever spectrum you want - but there's still no balance.
  - ur-whale 5y ago
    Corporate news aren't partisan. Unless you count chasing the bottom line as an ideology, that is. Fox, to take an extreme examples, isn't really partisan. They have just found a juicy business model where they've learnt to titillate the sensitivities of a certain segment of the population to maximize revenue. I don't have problem with a biased news source, as long as I have enough news sources to dig from and can average out the bias from multiple sources.
    - MattGaiser 5y ago
      >Fox, to take an extreme examples, isn't really partisan. They have just found a juicy business model where they've learnt to titillate the sensitivities of a certain segment of the population to maximize revenue. That just describes their motivations as not being partisan. Their product is still highly partisan.
      - ur-whale 5y ago
        > Their product is still highly partisan. Fair enough, but they're not really a news source.
GCA10 5y ago
I've been impressed with what News Literacy Project is doing, particularly in terms of helping high school students recognize the hallmarks of carefully researched material vs. the opposite. https://newslit.org/ https://newslit.org/
hguant 5y ago
I think one of the foremost solutions to this problem set is Substack. There are a non-trivial number of journalists on there who's pitch is "hey, I don't want to be part of an institution that has bias/that I don't believe in, give me money and I'll deliver long form 'pure' essays to you." The potential pitfall is that one can end up only subscribing to journalists that agree with ones point of view. I personally think this is offset by the kinds of view points that are attracted to or do well on a space like Substack, but that might just be me.
telesilla 5y ago
Some very important work happening at the centre for investigative journalism, there are opportunities to help for example developing programs to teach digital safety to journalists and sources. https://tcij.org https://tcij.org
andyxor 5y ago
create a better alternative to Parler, more robust against de-platforming by Bigtech, half the country will thank you

30kppldievryday 5y ago

Is this satire?

llacb47 5y ago

Your impression of "news today" lacks nuance and does not give me confidence in your ability to "make a difference" in the journalism industry.

zepto 5y ago
Seems pretty accurate to me. What part did you disagree with?

fragileone 5y ago

Exploiting psychology on a mass scale like this means that the only solution will be government regulation.

ErikVandeWater 5y ago

I don't have an answer but these two YouTube channels look like what I hope the answer looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_42LVirfNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_42LVirfNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIxhF21qO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIxhF21qO4

jari_mustonen 5y ago

I think is up to personal choices: • Quit subscribing corporate media and subscribe to single reporters that are doing real reporting. • Have zero tolerance for news that mislead you. ”Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” • Try to find reporters that are willing to give you the honest cotext even if it goes against what you expect and does not affirm your believes. If enough people do this, those lying and misleading for profit will go out of business.

chrisseaton 5y ago
But single reporters seem even more aggressively partisan than corporate. They're often at least fairly explicit about this though - billing themselves as a journalist of the left or of the right or whatever spectrum you want - but there's still no balance.
- ur-whale 5y ago
  Corporate news aren't partisan. Unless you count chasing the bottom line as an ideology, that is. Fox, to take an extreme examples, isn't really partisan. They have just found a juicy business model where they've learnt to titillate the sensitivities of a certain segment of the population to maximize revenue. I don't have problem with a biased news source, as long as I have enough news sources to dig from and can average out the bias from multiple sources.
  - MattGaiser 5y ago
    >Fox, to take an extreme examples, isn't really partisan. They have just found a juicy business model where they've learnt to titillate the sensitivities of a certain segment of the population to maximize revenue. That just describes their motivations as not being partisan. Their product is still highly partisan.
    - ur-whale 5y ago
      > Their product is still highly partisan. Fair enough, but they're not really a news source.

GCA10 5y ago

I've been impressed with what News Literacy Project is doing, particularly in terms of helping high school students recognize the hallmarks of carefully researched material vs. the opposite. https://newslit.org/ https://newslit.org/

hguant 5y ago

I think one of the foremost solutions to this problem set is Substack. There are a non-trivial number of journalists on there who's pitch is "hey, I don't want to be part of an institution that has bias/that I don't believe in, give me money and I'll deliver long form 'pure' essays to you." The potential pitfall is that one can end up only subscribing to journalists that agree with ones point of view. I personally think this is offset by the kinds of view points that are attracted to or do well on a space like Substack, but that might just be me.

telesilla 5y ago

Some very important work happening at the centre for investigative journalism, there are opportunities to help for example developing programs to teach digital safety to journalists and sources. https://tcij.org https://tcij.org

andyxor 5y ago

create a better alternative to Parler, more robust against de-platforming by Bigtech, half the country will thank you