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>Journalism's problems aren't with journalism. Journalism has many problems, but make no mistake, this certainly is the biggest. Journalism hasn't been a respe
by phaus 13y ago
>Journalism's problems aren't with journalism.
Journalism has many problems, but make no mistake, this certainly is the biggest. Journalism hasn't been a respectable profession for at least a hundred years. Sure, there are examples of good journalism, but sadly they are the exception. The overwhelming majority of journalism today is either meaningless pop-culture drivel, or hyper-politicized, sensationalist propaganda.
Its not even the journalism industry's fault. Its just a sad fact that unbiased, factual articles are incredibly hard to write, and nearly impossible to make interesting to the average person.
- FedRegister 13y agoThe problem is that journalism, as a bias-controlled profession, is only just one hundred years old. The National Press Club, founded in 1908, is seen as the beginning of professionalism in journalism. They were built upon promulgating a set of ethics and standards for journalism, including a focus on the facts, accuracy, and bias-control. Before that there was very little focus on what we consider bias-control. In the early years of the United States up through the 1890s, newspapers were most often owned by political parties and were explicitly for slinging innuendo, suggestion, rumor, and scandal at the political opponents of that party. So if you think it's a new problem or that it's bad now, history has shown that it has been worse.
- phaus 13y agoI didn't say that it was a new phenomenon, that's why I said its been journalism's biggest problem for AT LEAST 100 years.