3 ms·
The business of News and Journalism almost inherently corrupts the journalism sadly. How can you report on wrongdoings, when the one doing wrong sponsors the p
by MSFT_Edging 4y ago
The business of News and Journalism almost inherently corrupts the journalism sadly.
How can you report on wrongdoings, when the one doing wrong sponsors the publication.
A challenge going forward would be to figure out how one can fund journalism in a way that is separate from motive and bias of those funding.
State funded means state gets the last say more or less. Corporate funding means journalism is inherently pro-corporate.
Local news(tv and paper) is no longer profitable which means we lose the most independent investigative journalism.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoIn traditional newspapers, there was a very clear line between the editorial staff and the business/management staff. The business side could not interfere in the editorial - the editorial staff would walk out if the CEO tried to interfere in editorial control. Sadly that hasn't been true for most journalism for decades. The only way forward is for the readers to pay for it. But we've trained everyone that the news is free - it's going to be a hard task to undo that training and get people to pay for their news again.