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[laylalex 7,300]

22 minutes ago, nykolos said:

What is Standard Journalism to you?

 

I cringe when I hear people on both the left and right call themselves ""Journalist's"" when in reality they're nothing but pundits with bias.

 

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 minute ago, laylalex said:

Underrated, particularly in today's environment of deplatforming and thoughtpolicing. 

 

I mean.. Orwell had ties to people who knew white supremacists and therefore is one himself. This lady clearly amplifies white supremacy therefore her and Orwell should be banned by the moderators.

[nykolos 711]

 

The elements of journalism

Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth

Its first loyalty is to citizens

Its essence is a discipline of verification

Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover

It must serve as an independent monitor of power

It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise

It must strive to keep the significant interesting and relevant

It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional

Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience

Citizens, too, have rights and responsibilities when it comes to the news

 

https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/what-is-journalism/elements-journalism/

 

 

 

[laylalex 7,300]

That's a really, really interesting and even-handed mission statement, from the first bit that I've read. Bookmarking to read when I get back from the weekly supermarket run. Thanks!

[TBoneTX 46,113]

5 hours ago, nykolos said:

Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience

This seems to be the only tenet that now survives...

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

5 hours ago, laylalex said:

That's a really, really interesting and even-handed mission statement, from the first bit that I've read. Bookmarking to read when I get back from the weekly supermarket run. Thanks!

I think we all wish that there was actual journalism going on and publications that reap of opoinated bs trying to pass itself off as real news. 

[nykolos 711]

55 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

This seems to be the only tenet that now survives...

Yes, and it's been misused and abused beyond anyone's imagination.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 hour ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I think we all wish that there was actual journalism going on and publications that reap of opoinated bs trying to pass itself off as real news. 

Mainstream journalists and faces were biased before but it was a lot more subtle before and they generally still reported on the truth. In recent times their lying and malice have become normative, but far worse is that they're the primary culprits behind actual attacks on their own profession trying to intimidate and silence other journalists. 

 

The very people making sites like Breitbart, "blogs" etc. appealing on par if not above the mainstream press and journalists, are the very mainstream press and journalists themselves. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot and make their own voices irrelevant to all but the smallest niches of confirmation bias seeking nutjobs, who am I to stop them? I'll watch and enjoy it. 

Edited February 1, 2021 by Burnt Reynolds

[TBoneTX 46,113]

"Niches of Nutjobs" -- that has a ring to it.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

22 hours ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Mainstream journalists and faces were biased before but it was a lot more subtle before and they generally still reported on the truth. In recent times their lying and malice have become normative, but far worse is that they're the primary culprits behind actual attacks on their own profession trying to intimidate and silence other journalists. 

 

The very people making sites like Breitbart, "blogs" etc. appealing on par if not above the mainstream press and journalists, are the very mainstream press and journalists themselves. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot and make their own voices irrelevant to all but the smallest niches of confirmation bias seeking nutjobs, who am I to stop them? I'll watch and enjoy it. 

Yeah, Andy Ngo being considered a real journalist is a ship that has sailed. Sad.

[Dashinka 24,786]

8 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

Yeah, Andy Ngo being considered a real journalist is a ship that has sailed. Sad.

Just like everyone else that calls themselves a journalist.