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Nearly 20 years ago we started pushing STEM in society. I would expect everyone here thinks that's a great idea but what happened to Not-STEM. Journalism lost a
by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Nearly 20 years ago we started pushing STEM in society. I would expect everyone here thinks that's a great idea but what happened to Not-STEM. Journalism lost all their top candidates into STEM. The quality of journalism objectively dropped and when that happens it turns into "Yellow Journalism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Basically what we see today in journalism is no different than 100 years ago. A very high degree of yellow journalism.
Pulitzer and Hearst became so bad that they openly called for the assassination of the US president(mckinley). Both ran basically the same call to assassinate with different authors. The realization that pulitzer and hearst had some hand in having the republican president assassinated is what got him to stop. He went back to the paper and put a stop to the yellow journalism and then put the prize in his will.
Very obvious the Hannity and Oreilly Fox news led the move, but now it's virtually everyone. It's not even just the USA. The yellow journalism coming out of the CBC is a nice steady flow.