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