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Also agree. There should be tags for "Amazon Affiliated" or "Murdoch Affiliated", but there should even more be a tag for "Independent Journalist". The latter
by joebiden2 3y ago
Also agree. There should be tags for "Amazon Affiliated" or "Murdoch Affiliated", but there should even more be a tag for "Independent Journalist".
The latter are, unfortunately, mostly in jails today, be it in Russia, in China or even in the US.
- Marsymars 3y agoI think also, notably, “advertiser-funded media”.
- Timon3 3y agoWouldn't the tag "independent journalist" make you dependent on Twitter? Following the analogy of "government funding necessarily means government influence", Twitter can give and take these labels arbitrarily (as they've done with NBC). Any independent journalist would be careful about stories on Twitter, since they might take away the tags, no?
- vintermann 3y agoTrue, but you don't need Twitter's permission to start doing journalism on Twitter (nor do you have to care much about how they label you). You absolutely need NBC's permission before you can start doing journalism on NBC. My whole point was that governments don't need to get heavy handed to get a compliant press, since they can engineer it up front. The important filtering of news happens not at the desk, but at the hiring.