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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
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. |
yes, this is true and the reason is that we have too many of them and everyone needs to make money.
but a true story is not easy to read or understand and we a living in the era of "precooked information" that means that people do not only want to hear the news they also want to hear what they should think about it.
many of this big media have decreased to be headline sellers.
but you do not have to forget one thing, that nearly every journalist of the bigger media has studied and learned also about ethic.
millions of this "new media" including a few 100thousand webmasters who would sell their own mother for 5 bucks did not even hear about ethic.
i usually get my information by watching tv or reading newspapers from different countries and compare them. i can even see a huge difference when i watch german TV or swiss TV.
I will tell you an example:
When that problem in Syria started there was a documentation from the German TV with some of the "rebels". And the rebels talked about freedom and human rights and fighting against dictatorship.
Obviously, this interview they gave was for a bunch of german speaking TV-stations and I saw the absolutely same on Swiss TV. But the camera guy there changed also his position to the car the "rebels" came with and it was plastered with stickers from Al Qaida and ISIS.
I mean just that "little fact" brought another view to the whole situation.
I know it is not easy to find out the truth but if you are REALLY interested in facts and try to get your information from different sources (and international sources are mostly quite good for that) you will be able to be up to date.