I get where you are coming from, but journalists today aren't real journalists. Public trust in media is at an all-time low for a reason.
I understand that real journalism must be paid for, but allowing megacorps to buy up all maintream media was a huge mistake and now they are all corporate mouthpieces.
I don't know what the answer is, but trusting 'journalists' of today is not it.
The head of journalism at my college warned us of this over a decade ago, and he didn't have the answer either. They lost their ethics in search of clicks and clout and cry foul when they aren't believed. They use divisive language, outright lie, holy crap this election cycle will be a shitshow. There's no unbiased truth finders anymore.
The ones I feel sorry for are the real journalists drowned out by the fake.
> I get where you are coming from, but journalists today aren't real journalists.
Some are, some aren't. Just like some programmers are real programmers and others are not, and some managers are real managers and others are not. The world is full of posers but that doesn't mean there aren't people that hold the title + the ethics that come with it dear. They're a minority, but they've always been a minority, that didn't change at all.
> Public trust in media is at an all-time low for a reason.
It mostly is because there are well funded political groups that incessantly undermine the public trust in the media. Because the last thing they want is for their deeds to be properly exposed and investigated.
> I understand that real journalism must be paid for, but allowing megacorps to buy up all maintream media was a huge mistake and now they are all corporate mouthpieces.
> I don't know what the answer is, but trusting 'journalists' of today is not it.
Well, one thing that could be done is to seriously limit ownership of media by global empires. The likes of Murdoch have done untold damage to the world in the pursuit of some green paper.
> The head of journalism at my college warned us of this over a decade ago, and he didn't have the answer either.
Yes, it is a problem. And given the cost of good investigative journalism it is in fact unbelievable that there are still people doing this because they see it as their calling. And I'm mighty impressed with that and do not accept the broad brush with which they too are being painted. In every country you can find journalists that operate with integrity and that are not to be muzzled by corporate interests. They're real heroes too because in plenty of places that will get you ostracized, beaten up, blacklisted or murdered.
> They lost their ethics in search of clicks and clout and cry foul when they aren't believed.
Some. Not all.
> They use divisive language, outright lie, holy crap this election cycle will be a shitshow. There's no unbiased truth finders anymore.
There are, just not all that many, but they do exist.
> The ones I feel sorry for are the real journalists drowned out by the fake.
So, it seems we agree they exist. My solution is pretty simple, I seek out the journalists whose work I trust and I try to get my information about country A from any source except the ones in country A because they likely will not be objective. That's a hack and a workaround but it seems to work quite well.
I understand that real journalism must be paid for, but allowing megacorps to buy up all maintream media was a huge mistake and now they are all corporate mouthpieces.
I don't know what the answer is, but trusting 'journalists' of today is not it.
The head of journalism at my college warned us of this over a decade ago, and he didn't have the answer either. They lost their ethics in search of clicks and clout and cry foul when they aren't believed. They use divisive language, outright lie, holy crap this election cycle will be a shitshow. There's no unbiased truth finders anymore.
The ones I feel sorry for are the real journalists drowned out by the fake.