| Interesting piece on journalism versus opinion 08:27 - Jan 30 with 2321 views | Steve_M |
Particularly important in the social media age when activism and journalism merge. It's really a reminder to all of us to be a bit more sceptical and not blindly agree with some article that fits our prejudices.
https://unherd.com/2020/01/journalism-is-being-eaten-alive-by-opinion/
"But if you disagree, just go on Twitter, which is where just about every left-of-center journalist 40 and under spends a big chunk of each and every working day. Over and over and over, you will see people whose job is to report the truth responding with strong half-baked opinions, or retweeting their friends’ and colleagues’ strong half-baked opinions, in response to breaking-news events about which very little is known so far." |  |
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| Interesting piece on journalism versus opinion on 12:15 - Jan 30 with 368 views | glasso |
As a former journalist and someone who still works in the media, this is a real bugbear of mine, not least because it's just slowly become 'the norm'.
The 'rules' of journalism have been ripped up. For instance, ask any trained journalist and there are certain ways to write a story: sum up the whole story in a short, first paragraph before going back over the facts in more depth for the rest of the article; write the story, never become the story... things like that.
Take a look at any 'young' news outlet nowadays - Vice, LadBible, Buzzfeed etc (and yes, I know there'll be people saying "news outlet?!" but that's because the line has blurred so much!) and see how many times they say "I" or "me" or "in my opinion" in them.
And you'll inevitably get ten paragraphs of waffle about the journalist's own, inane experience of the subject before finally getting a two-line 'story' right at the end of the article, once you've spent sufficient time on the page to earn them some ad revenue.
Mate, you're 21, fresh out of uni and nobody cares what you think about the news.
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| Interesting piece on journalism versus opinion on 12:17 - Jan 30 with 367 views | Steve_M |
| Interesting piece on journalism versus opinion on 12:03 - Jan 30 by chicoazul |
What false balance? The BBC is I think legally mandated to balance all opinion pieces and personalities. It's not their fault basically nobody good is conservative anymore apart from me. |
Climate change for example. Scientific consensus versus Piers Corbyn or Nigel Lawson.
Providing equal time to the batsh1t as to science isn't balance it's a distortion of reality. | |
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| Interesting piece on journalism versus opinion on 12:32 - Jan 30 with 351 views | BlueBadger |
| Interesting piece on journalism versus opinion on 10:24 - Jan 30 by No9 |
Isn't it interesting that the BBC have Sarah Vine on to give an opinion without ever telling the viewer who she is married to?
Anrew Neils interests are declared (all of them??) in the HoC |
I'm sure you'd insist on the Beeb doing the same if they were to interview, say, Yvette Cooper. |  |
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