#mainstream journalism

[amaximumtastemakercollection]

[indizombie]

The focus should be on mainstream journalism. The idea of citizen journalism is like outsourcing our jobs. Does a doctor say, “become a citizen doctor,” and ask people to decide the medicine themselves? Does a lawyer say, “become a citizen lawyer and represent yourself in court”? Citizens are citizens, and cannot be expected to do journalism. The citizen pays money and invests time in buying a newspaper or watching TV news – but there is little journalism left in them.

Ravish Kumar

[putyourbodyuponthewheels]

Rise of Distorted News Puts Climate Scientists on Their Guard

Wary of misleading coverage, some climate researchers are avoiding publicizing results. Others prepare countermeasures to anticipate and com

[maastrichtiana]

The Media Manufactured Biden’s Political ‘Fiasco’ in Afghanistan

The “straight news” media has chosen sanctimony over circumspection in its coverage of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

[maastrichtiana]

Journalist out here trying to make everything an ethical quagmire and lecture their readers just steepening the decline in critical thinking skills

[biciliberation]

Don't forget that all the publicity on the Pope visiting The U.S. is a distraction from something Major

[indizombie]

The job of mainstream journalism is to treat rare individuals motivated by compassion as rare fools deserving contempt. If even high-profile dissidents such as Noam Chomsky can be painted as wretched, sickly fools, then which reader or viewer would want to be associated with dissent? Then ‘normal’ – conforming, consuming, looking after ‘number one’ – can be made to seem healthy, balanced, sensible and sane.

David Edwards, 'Brilliant Fools'