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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by Karunamon on Saturday June 27, 2020 @08:25PM (#23665799)
Allow me to add one of my own: Journalists' jobs aren't to share their "concerns", it's to report the facts. So much of the media's pathology is a result of the problem that news doesn't even try to be impartial anymore.

If you want to "share your concerns", the place to do that is an op-ed, or a blog post, or twitter, or something. But it isn't journalism anymore.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by adrianN on Sunday June 28, 2020 @12:33AM (#23666755)
News never was impartial. Just by selecting what to report and the order in which you report things you influence the reception of the world. I'd argue that it's impossible to have objective news.
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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by Karunamon on Sunday June 28, 2020 @02:07AM (#23667030)
That's not what I'm talking about here. We've gone beyond mere story selection to actual agenda-pushing. I.e punditry, not journalism.
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