journalism died a long time ago. do you remember a time when journalists actually did reporting by going to the area where something happened and getting facts on the ground? they used to call it "on scene reporting"
they also used to do things like investigative journalism, where sometimes they'd go undercover to infiltrate a group in order to discover the truth. the only group doing this now is project veritas
the vast majority of legacy media now is just employing glorified bloggers who are perfecting the art of the misleading headline while filling the body of the article with a ton of crap thats only used to fill space between advertisements. people that sit in a room all day and never venture outside of their echo chamber bubble they set up for themselves from the day they graduate college until they inevitably get fired when the layoffs start because of a lack of readership. journalism is dead
Ding ding ding. As long as there is mass media there will be powerful people interested in killing stories. How many stories never saw the light of day in the last 100 years?
The whole Stalin thing and the cozying up to the USSR was a big fucking deal. I recently watched a 1944 Hollywood movie and the portrayal of the Soviets was as comrades to the US. A little backwards, but absolutely a fellow traveler. @ this point I'm not convinced that Hitler and his minions were worse. They were both SOBs that many people adored. Hirohito and Mao are in a similar category. What if Britain, France, and the USA just said fuck it and let the assholes go at it. Kind of like Sweden.
Remember when Vice used to send people into really dangerous areas to get some of the best War / Conflict zone coverage in history? Their pieces on Ukraine, ISIS, or even older ones like The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia are well composed and fascinating reports where the reporters get shot at, threatened, and swarmed by angry mobs.
journalism died a long time ago. do you remember a time when journalists actually did reporting by going to the area where something happened and getting facts on the ground? they used to call it "on scene reporting"
they also used to do things like investigative journalism, where sometimes they'd go undercover to infiltrate a group in order to discover the truth. the only group doing this now is project veritas
the vast majority of legacy media now is just employing glorified bloggers who are perfecting the art of the misleading headline while filling the body of the article with a ton of crap thats only used to fill space between advertisements. people that sit in a room all day and never venture outside of their echo chamber bubble they set up for themselves from the day they graduate college until they inevitably get fired when the layoffs start because of a lack of readership. journalism is dead
Ding ding ding. As long as there is mass media there will be powerful people interested in killing stories. How many stories never saw the light of day in the last 100 years?
100 years ago more people owned newspapers.
Henry Ford ran The Dearborn Independent which was later collected in to The International Jew - The World's foremost problem
The whole Stalin thing and the cozying up to the USSR was a big fucking deal. I recently watched a 1944 Hollywood movie and the portrayal of the Soviets was as comrades to the US. A little backwards, but absolutely a fellow traveler. @ this point I'm not convinced that Hitler and his minions were worse. They were both SOBs that many people adored. Hirohito and Mao are in a similar category. What if Britain, France, and the USA just said fuck it and let the assholes go at it. Kind of like Sweden.
Comparing evil versus evil is not ethical.
One can only guess if picking a side against hitler was the right move.
Hitler was SOB, however, giving a free pass to Soviets was the real loss. Soviets needed to be dismantled after WW2, by force, if necessary.
Newsmen are just narrative presenters
Remember when Vice used to send people into really dangerous areas to get some of the best War / Conflict zone coverage in history? Their pieces on Ukraine, ISIS, or even older ones like The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia are well composed and fascinating reports where the reporters get shot at, threatened, and swarmed by angry mobs.
Now it's just... Vice. Oh how the mighty fall.
Journalists just rephrase whatever the original article said and add their jokes/agenda on top.