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Journalism 101
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I would have agreed with David Burge maybe 10 years ago. As an American patriot, I wanted to believe that, perhaps, that journalism was just incompetent, inept, or monofocused on their own narrative. It was a helpful plausible deniability, because if it was ONLY that, then USA journalism could recover to be responsible stewards of freedom of the press. I kept ignoring evidence of a more significant problem. I remember an article from five years ago calling for "basic guiding journalistic principles that need to be preserved, among them objectivity and balanced reporting." It seems cruelly laughable in 2022. The Society of Professional Journalists, which used to have someone focused on journalism ethics, essentially deprioritized it, and then re-packaged it to basically use for political partisan attacks.
The documented evidence of the transactional nature of modern USA/Western journalism is so significant and so undeniable, there simply isn't a way to find plausible deniability that we only have well-meaning journalists looking to promote a "narrative." We have a very organized transactional effort within USG and US IC/NatSec to use USA journalism in the same way USSR/CCP/etc. have used "state media." Not as brazenly evident, using more nuance, but with the same general results.
The USA hopefully needs to get out of the "constant state of crisis" that has allowed (and fuels) the massive normalization of transcational nature in the media, hopefully someday back to a world that is more "boring" (God willing). Until the nation gets out of the constant crisis, I don't see a way to recover on journalism's future.
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Not every time. There are some outstanding journalists nowadays. Reading their articles is interesting; most importantly, they can even make some stories more interesting. For example, I never miss an article from Business Mole because I enjoy the style of their authors. They always share with their readers only the best news in the business Niche. It is a part of my daily routine. I read the newest articles while I am taking breakfast. It is a suitable method of combining these two occupations because it saves a lot of time.