Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy

Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by throwaway894345 on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:51AM (#28170526)

I think we're also increasingly seeing journalistic "power" consolidating on the coasts, in the bluest of blue districts (of course the most prestigious newspapers have always been coastal, but they've grown in prevalence while regional newspapers have fallen). This means that journalists for the largest publications are overwhelmingly far more left-wing than the rest of the country.

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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by wolverine876 on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:15PM (#28170837)

> I think we're also increasingly seeing journalistic "power" consolidating on the coasts

It's just the Northeast of the US: NYT, WSJ, Washington Post; and of course NY is the center of journalism (as with many things), and Washington and NY are the leading centers of power and therefore news. There are no equivalent west coast or southeast news sources.

However, don't forget that the largest 'publication', or publisher, is Murdoch: Fox, Wall Street Journal, etc. And that is right-wing and the most biased.

The influence of the coasts has been remarked on for a long time, but I think with the Internet it's actually a much improved situation: People easily get news from all over the country and the world. Everyone can read the BBC and much more (including Russian sources, without even knowing it! :) ), and they also get their news, for good or ill, from random people worldwide! :P

> journalists for the largest publications are overwhelmingly far more left-wing than the rest of the country

That assumes the personal political beliefs have a large effect on their jobs.

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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by elliekelly on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:53PM (#28172140)

Have you read the WSJ lately? They’re a prestigious paper in a “blue” coastal city and they’re definitely not what I would call left wing.

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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by throwaway894345 on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:37PM (#28173559)

Of course there are exceptions. It doesn't have to be literally 100% of outlets or journalists for it to be a problem.

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