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> This is not a journalist. This is someone that writes their opinion on a column. > I know I was born too late to experience the golden age of journalism wher
by add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
> This is not a journalist. This is someone that writes their opinion on a column.
> I know I was born too late to experience the golden age of journalism where journals would actually stick to give you the news
No, you were born too recently to have yet reached the level of education that teaches what journalism is.
- gitaarik 2y agoSo what is journalism according to you? Opinions? Columns?
- ceejayoz 2y agoIt includes those things, yes. As with photography, data analysis, investigating, editing, etc.
- gitaarik 2y agoYeah but it's also preference. Some people like to read the facts and then come to their own conclusions. I think it can be interesting to read an opinion / column so now and then, to see someone's perspective. But I think it's important to also think about the stuff that's happening yourself, and not just take the opinions and views of someone else.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoYes that's the point of editorial journalism, to give you another perspective. You're the one acting as if you've been forced to accept their opinion verbatim which you haven't, and deciding it's not journalism, which it demonstrably is.
- gitaarik 2y agoI wasn't the one who posted the original comment you replied to. And yeah, reading other people's opinion can help you give perspectives and come to your own personal views. But I also think that certain newspapers seem to weave in little opinions in between the facts, and sometimes it's hard to separate them. And I empathise with the annoyance of that.