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Re:Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminal... by yucky on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:48AM (#33163325)
I would define a real journalist as someone who adds new important previously unknown facts to a story, or reports on a previously unreported story and who discloses if their sources have a vested interest in the information they've presented.

So that eliminates cable news entirely and most of the work done by NYT, WAPO etc. who basically act as a mouthpiece for government and repeat the same stories ad infinitum.

Re:Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminal... by ModernMech on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:45AM (#33163956)
There’s a whole sub field of journalism called “curatorial journalism” or “meta journalism” that reports aggregated news that has already been reported by other outlets. This means they don’t report any new facts per se, but sometimes the combination of facts over time can color a story differently than when the facts are reported in isolation. I find this form of journalism to be very compelling.