Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power

Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by nxmnxm99 on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:07PM (#26144591)

Yeah it's a cute story but it's off the mark because more often than not nowadays the mainstream journalists ARE the rich and powerful.

If you want to see journalists actually performing the role of being checks on power, go to the third world. Bankrolled journalism isn't true journalism.

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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by gumby on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:28PM (#26145543)

> more often than not nowadays the mainstream journalists ARE the rich and powerful.

Really? Very few, if any. People like Tucker Carlson have wealthy contracts but they don’t even consider themselves journalists, but entertainers (in his case he’s not part of the news division, for example).

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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by pochamago on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:33PM (#26146264)

Twenty percent of NYT writers attended an Ivy League school, which seems significant to me. https://www.journalofexpertise.org/articles/volume1_issue1/J...

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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by gumby on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:01AM (#26151099)

I do t know how many reporters you know but an Ivy League education doesn’t automatically make you rich. Especially if you become a reporter, social worked, public defender, or painter.

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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by nxmnxm99 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:21PM (#26171178)

Not individual personas, but the media organizations themselves. These aren't scrappy publications living in damp, ill-lit rooms exposing the evil villains of Gotham, these are multi billion dollar corporations with political ambitions.

The job of modern "journalism" is no longer to inform - it's to influence. The individual players just tow the party line.

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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by gumby on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:31PM (#26175293)

> The job of modern "journalism" is no longer to inform - it's to influence.

Has the purpose of journalism ever been to “inform”? Seems it has always (well, going back for centuries at least) been to argue a point. I say this out of sympathy for journalists, not to condem them.

> The individual players just tow the party line.

Aren’t you contradicting yourself? If your aim is to influence the last thing you’d do is toe the line; rather you’d cross it without a thought.

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