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Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by msla on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:50AM (#19282546)
And even if you select for news which might affect a large portion of the world, you run into issues of which stories to present first, which ones to go in-depth on, and other issues of news judgment that any paper or TV station made.

Back in the Old Days, newsrooms were full of people who debated what the news was, in terms of which stories to run, which ones were headlines, and which ones were below the fold on the second page. Those people were, let us be clear, straight White men who either were cis and hetero or were able to fake it well enough to have a professional career. Most of them were Christian, and if you go back far enough in some regions that effectively excludes Catholics.

They were news judgment, in terms of the news sources which mattered. They were the gatekeepers.

So we have different gatekeepers now. This is only deeply disturbing if you thought the gatekeepers never existed, or went away entirely.

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