I agree, but I think we the public have more than a little culpability as well. The fact of the matter is that the demand for quality journalism is much lower than the damand for vapid easily consumable entertaining bullshit. It's not just that clickbait is cheap; it's that people want clickbait, even if they say they don't.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, but er, yeah! Or no way! Or [insert your desired response here]!
Those of us who actually care about having good journalism, we should subscribe to independent journalism outlets. I pay for a bunch of them, often individual journalists or small teams. They have no overhead, and they just want to pay their bills with the income from their work.
I hate "slammed" and "blasted" and personally I only use it in a sarcastic way most of the time because of that.
when a headline uses those words it's an immediate sign of buffoonery, ragebait, just dumb gossip for children. instant downvote for me wherever I see it.
I am furrowing my brow and writing stern letters so hard right now
journalism today is a total clown show 💯
This.
They stop publishing it when we stop rewarding them for it.
if you find any let me know, I've been looking all over
Hahaha holy fuck thats hilarious. So fucking true though. The amount of times I’ve clicked on an article that sounded interesting and then it was one paragraph and then just a bunch of tweets from randoms about it is frustrating.
I wish we had more actual trustworthy journalism too. I have such little faith in it not being propaganda anymore. Finding out how many things I used to read that are either owned by Bezos, Murdoch, or the literal CIA (looking at you, radio free Asia, you stupid bitches you ain’t slick) has just destroyed my faith in anything I read anymore.
facts!
So fucking tired of Twitter hot take garbage in general.
I wish people would start reading actual newspapers more, rather than just clicking at whatever add-financed bullshit is trending in social media.
Journalists are not to blame here, the problem is entirely on the side of media consumers who neither have the attention span to read quality coverage of anything nor the willingness to pay for content.
Hopefully the fediverse will foster different dynamics in the type of news content that is shared, pushing journalism over sensationalism and confrontationalism. Not that it would solve the problem, but it would at least be a beginning.
What I hate is that politicians make verifiable claims constantly, yet never does a single journalist actually, you know, verify the claim.
Every article is just: "Sen. Nimrod stated he is a huge supporter of workers rights. His opponent is claiming this is not true. 'That's not true.' Said his opponent. 'It is true.' stated Sen. Nimrod"
I'm often reminded of a great quote I wish more journalists followed.
If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both, your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true.
Local journalists are much better in reporting today than big media. And it is actually the local news that matter much more. Mainstream media has lost its reputation by choosing which news to amplify, reporting incorrectly and not correcting properly, and overruling their journalists.
Local news is no better because "local news" barely exists anymore. Sure, you may see the local journos in your area talking about community interests, etc, but anything outside of that most localized of content is being controlled by large parent companies that own all of the smaller news agencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwA4k0E51Oo
This is from years ago, but I can't imagine that in the last five years this centralization has suddenly dissolved.
I see journalism getting attacked a lot for this. I think the issue is when you put tabloid headlines/journalism in the same category as respectable journalism/news it legitimizes the tabloid and hurts respectable journalists. I would like to see a magazine or sub that tries to filter these out. It should also try to force clearly marking opinions pieces in the post or post title.
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Journalism teams have been cut down below their capacity to actually do journalism. The corporate outlets just want content, so they killed journalism because clickbait is cheap.
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