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"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell This might not be a popular opinion, but
by pavs 13y ago
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
This might not be a popular opinion, but I honestly think that its not possible for a for profit news organization to be fair and balanced. Specially in todays world when news organizations are owned and operated by a few to drive public opinion.
Ideally news organization should either be donation funded and non-profit. When you start caring about maximizing page-views and start pushing for more profit per pixels, its stops being journalism.
- tete 13y agoYes and no. You can consider buying a newspaper a donation. Actually what you suggest already has been tried in various forms, the outcome being stuff like indymedia, but also others. The problem you face here is that having no ads in your news usually means having no money for: marketing, getting out your stuff. A lot of things are already know anyway somewhere, just that person isn't loud enough or nobody cares. lawyers, if you don't want to do just public relations then you will need lots of them. reportages, that often require a lot of preparation, going to other countries, hidden cameras, tons of other equipment, etc. fallback money in case something goes really bad. It's sad, but it feels a bit like if there were enough donating people for serious news then the world would already be better and require it way less. Also you saw the Wikileaks drama. I can be kinda rough.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoYou're just throwing the baby out with the bath water. The world is not this black and white. Things like this do get called out in the media. Do you think that is just well orchestrated conspiracy to throw us off?