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> But the press of today is a for profit endeavour. For me, the press today is a for influence endeavour. Most journalists have a POV the majority of topics th
by socalgal2 1y ago
> But the press of today is a for profit endeavour.
For me, the press today is a for influence endeavour. Most journalists have a POV the majority of topics they write about they express that POV with how they discuss the topic. For example, which people they quote, generally only ones that agree with their POV. If they present an a opposing view they always couch it and phrase things to push the reader to discount that view. If they preset a supporting view they phrase it in a way to make it sound trusting and authoritative.
To put it more simply, most journalists are trying to change the world to see things their way.
- wredcoll 1y ago> To put it more simply, most journalists are trying to change the world to see things their way. This is a good thing. Aside from the bit where it's always been like this anyways, we, as modern humans, don't have the time to evaluate everything from first sources. You can't read every scientic study or the 500 pages of tax documents that were studied to produce a report on someone committing tax fraud. I don't need more "facts", I need useful information I can take action on.
- socalgal2 1y agoAnd if that info is wrong because inconvenient counter examples are deprecated and ignored?