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Originally Posted by NewNick
I have a suggestion (which will fly right over the heads of most of you ), but unless we see a return to a environment where media of all types have some enforced editorial responsibility, then Trump is just the start of the madness.
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Trump seems to be the start of people cutting the media out of the loop fully and talking directly to the people without a filter, slant or interpretation. Thats not a terrible thing.
Was watching this below again on Netflix and it reminds us of what the "media" used to be.
Through much of the early episodes, the editor of the nations biggest newspaper is driven by a deep sense of duty to report the truth. To do the right thing. To report all the facts as they are.
The media used to be about facts. About getting all the facts. About a complete story. About investigating. About editorial integrity. About what can and can't be published based on the facts. About ethics. About a moral obligation to society to present all the information. Reporters used to be quasi-detectives and often solved cases before police (financial crimes for example) through their investigating.
In the last 10 years in particular, it feels to me like news is just "info-tainment" and "facts" are a thing of the past and what is more important are narratives, agendas, stirring up or repeating accusations, sensationalism, simply reporting what some idiot said on a twitter post as if it matters etc etc etc.