What journalism used to be

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[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This raises questions like - what changed? Was there a switchover date, or have we gradually transitioned?

I think it's pretty obvious that the rise of internet and social media are the cause of the change, although I would love to hear an explanation for how the Victorian rise of tabloids were the real death of journalism.

The megaphones in the second picture are the blogs, social media, garage video production companies who can attract just as many clicks as the first group.

Actually I'd argue that the first group are still there, they just didn't grow in size along with the second group. The growth of the internet doesn't mean you can squeeze more reporters into a press briefing room, but it does allow millions more megaphone people to shout at the public.

So, I wonder what P38 and people who agee with this meme will do differently now it's been pointed out.

Like, will you read more credibly the reporting from serious press-pass high-brow MSM - likewise will you cease visiting the megaphone substack blogs and rumble videos? If you agree with this meme and think it's important, will you change your behavior, or keep clicking on the megaphone guy's dumb blog at the expense of real MSM who have editors and ethics and review processes?

[–]bife_de_lomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The ubiquity of free news has devalued the product so much that people are no longer willing to pay for journalists to produce it.

Advertorials and shallow comment round out the poor offering at most outlets, so reporting the press releases of gov depts is all they have left.

I think the move to more adversarial and polarized reporting has also made people trust what they are reading less, so their credibility has been entirely squandered.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You see this alot in science reporting.

I'm very interested in astronomy and keep tabs on some of the developments there. But the news about it is always hot garbage. They'll take some scientific report like "Scientists have found evidence of a possible planet between 2-3 earth masses located near a star with assumed temperatures of 3000 degrees at surface" and the headline will read "New Earth Discovered! Is there life!"

Which of course the article will then say something like "3000 degrees might make your summer picnics on this planet unpleasant"

No shit.

I should start charging them for wasting my time.