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Pick your poison. For all its flaws, I'll still take citizen journalism over corporate interests. The MSM abdicated its journalistic responsibility in favor o
by ta8645 3y ago
Pick your poison. For all its flaws, I'll still take citizen journalism over corporate interests. The MSM abdicated its journalistic responsibility in favor of activism and manipulation; they caused this as much as social media did.
- marban 3y agoCJ suffers from the same cases of activism and even more extreme tribalism – I'd rather read 3 different newspapers than follow a guy on Twitter who starts all his tweets with #BREAKING.
- mypastself 3y agoAmusingly, that’s exactly what CNN was doing the last time I turned it on.
- bregma 3y ago"citizen journalism" is what we used to call rumour, gossip, and hearsay. It still is.
- Dalewyn 3y agoAnd that is still (marginally) better than what the commercial and political propaganda machine we call "journalism" has become today.
- nonethewiser 3y agoTake that as a signal. The messaging in journalism has been so thoroughly hijacked that people trust gossip more. I can appreciate that people might pick “unreliable“ over “actively manipulating.”
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> messaging in journalism has been so thoroughly hijacked that people trust gossip more If your information diet is television, sure. If not, there are obvious and almost daily advantages from being properly informed relative to the large number of Americans, including some wealthy ones, who think they can roll their own open-source intelligence through gossip-like media.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y ago> The messaging in journalism has been so thoroughly hijacked that people trust gossip more no it hasn't, and no they don't this is an example of a common occurrence: a loud minority incorrectly thinking that their opinions represent those of "[the] people" some other examples are American conservatives with their incorrect ideas of what "[the] people" want, and anti-science advocates with their incorrect views that "people" don't trust science just say "I" instead.
- AlbertCory 3y ago> no it hasn't, and no they don't wow, that's sure persuasive. Trust in the media is at an all-time low. That isn't "a loud minority."
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoalmost as unpersuasive as the original claim that it has, and they do - a loud minority opinion if I ever heard one, and one that deserves no more effort refuting than you spent proving it in the first place (none) open to hearing evidence of that claim of yours, because the article disagrees with you
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- abathur 3y agoHmm. Like this? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/27/u-s-adults-under-30-now-trust-information-from-social-media-almost-as-much-as-from-national-news-outlets/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/27/u-s-adult...
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