Re:Friends are not a representative sample of public opinion
by shotnothing on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:51PM
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oftentimes, the metric of a journalist's success is not how accurate or well researched an article is
it is how accessible is, even at the cost of nuance, which leads to more clicks
I view the average journalist as a person who is educated in writing blog posts accessible for wide audiences. Therefore I believe a journalist will be better than the average person at writing blogs.
There used to be prestige to this, not everyone could write a blog before the internet, there was a whole production involved and the costs demanded a certain degree of talent and effort for economic reasons. This is no longer the case.
Certain specific journalists, with an earned reputation, still have that prestige. But that's all them and their individual efforts.