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Hopefully this will see integrity return to real, good quality investigative journalism in the media in general instead of "news" being used as fodder for polit
by balabaster 13y ago
Hopefully this will see integrity return to real, good quality investigative journalism in the media in general instead of "news" being used as fodder for political and commercial interests. It becomes tiring having to scroll through Fox, CNN, CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Times and other news agencies trying to piece some form of the truth based on reading between the lines of half truths and unchecked "facts" put in place to suit the story rather than the other way around.
Perhaps I've romanticized journalism in my mind and see the past through rose coloured glasses as we all tend to from time to time, but I feel like journalists used to have integrity and that we could once trust that when they put pen to paper, we could believe in what they wrote... or perhaps we never could and its only as age removes our naivety that we see the world's media for what it is, a sham designed to further political and commercial interests.
I for one should like to see a news agency that spends their time chasing down the facts like CSIs to present the cold hard truth rather than some dumbed down version of events designed to have some political sway. Lets hope the vision for whatever venture this may be is that. Perhaps I can dream.
- foobarqux 13y agoTo answer your question: Mainstream news has had a structural bias since at least the 60s as Chomsky and Herman describe in their book "Manufacturing Consent".
- dil8 13y agoYeah, while I have respect for Greenwald's work, I struggle with the notion that a news organisation with a billionaire as its backer can maintain a fully independent editorial policy. Chomsky and Herman point to five distorting filters which I think are prevalent in most mainstream news organisations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Political_Economy_of_the_Mass_Media#Editorial_bias:_five_filters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...
- foobarqux 13y agoOf course the news organization will be biased in favor of the financier and his interests. But those interests are presumably far narrower than the interests of a mainstream news organization that has to contend with a wide breadth of advertisers and political entities.
- ihnorton 13y agoWhenever I make this argument, a historian I know retorts that media bias is older than the country; the only difference now is the veneer of impartiality. Founding-era newspapers were forthright with and proud of their leanings.
- lemming 13y agoThe Guardian is actually one of the few organisations with its ownership structure set up for editorial independence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Ownership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Ownership. I guess Greenwald knows what he's doing but I'd struggle to give more credibility to a news organisation backed by some billionaire than one with an editorial board deliberately structured to provide independence.
- mrt0mat0 13y agoI agree the Guardian is probably one of the few news sources i trusted more than most. I'm thinking he was offered freedoms that the guardian COULDN'T offer him or the chance to run a full team of journalists like himself. I doubt he will be tamed by any organization. We will see.
- foobarqux 13y agoThe Guardian still depends on advertising and senior leadership runs in elite circles and is subject to political influence.