What gets passed off as news and journalism too often isn't either. Just because something happened (e.g., it rained) doesn't make it news. News has to have rel

What gets passed off as news and journalism too often isn't either. Just because something happened (e.g., it rained) doesn't make it news. News has to have relevance and importance. With that proper definition as a filter, a fairly high percentage of US mainstream media news is in fact fake news. This higher revenue fluff is used intentionally to marginalize things that qualify as legit news. Yet somehow these members of The Fourth Estate are shameless enough to cry about "threats to democracy." The problem is, we don't hear the news admit their definition of news is technically nonsense. Not one of them is willing to police the others. It's hypersonic bullshit that repetition has normalized. As for journalism...this is a solid filter. It's a handy bullshit detector. https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1 https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1