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The thing this article does not cover is that the average journalist has no sway. Most readers don't want the opinion of some random person covering a space, so
by brk 6mo ago
The thing this article does not cover is that the average journalist has no sway. Most readers don't want the opinion of some random person covering a space, so "CEO Said a Thing" is the headline that draws the reader in. Many times the journalist also is not getting paid enough to inject any sort of counterpoint or unique perspective. This just seems like the natural outcome of the click-whoring online "news" structure we've created.
- balkanist 6mo ago[flagged]
- hamdingers 6mo agoIf a journalist is not being paid enough to do journalism, what do we call their output? Certainly not journalism.
- MeetingsBrowser 6mo agoclickbait
- righthand 6mo agoSpam
- saaaaaam 6mo agoThe fairly well established term is churnalism.
- catcowcostume 6mo agoThen a better approach would be to not report on CEO's ramblings, and instead focus journalistic resources on topics of more interest to society. But, as the article points, that is not the purpose of journalism (at least in the United States).