By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 02:22:02 | Updated at 2024-11-17 04:20:51
2 hours ago
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself (barf alert)
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (really) ^ | September 5, 2024 | Sara Goudarzi
Posted on 11/16/2024 6:18:07 PM PST by DoodleBob
…Even after the creation of the World Wide Web and web browsers, for many years readers of news largely found it on journalism websites, where information was handpicked by professional editors. Now, half of adult Americans get their news from social media (Pew Research center 2023) often curated—that is, selected, organized, interpreted, and presented—by their family and friends.
“The editors are being replaced by just people posting whatever they want, so it’s loss of a professional standard about what counts,” explains Stephen Ansolabehere, a government professor at Harvard University. “What is being lost is the idea that people trust an entity, like The [New York] Times, The [Washington] Post, or The Guardian, and instead, the trust relationship in terms of the veracity of the story or the quality of this content is [that] your aunt or your best friend sent it to you.”
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“The United States is an extreme outlier in the nearly complete reliance on commercial forms of journalism, whereas in northwestern Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan, there are very significant public service provisions, and also often reasonably significant indirect subsidies for private publishers that cushion journalism from the full force of creative destruction that’s been unleashed,” Nielson says.
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States are also experimenting with public policies and funding to support local news. In April, the New York State Legislature passed a bill to provide tax credits to “incentivize hiring and retaining local journalists”
…“There’s also legislation pending in New York, California, and Illinois that would require big tech to compensate local news organizations for use of their content,” Franklin says…
..the push for legislation to better protect the industry, is encouraging.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: journalism
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This push for a government bailout of the enemedia is in a publication allegedly on science. How far we’ve fallen.
Indeed, in the current edition of this “magazine” one article starts:
The United States is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump, a candidate who has flaunted his desire for autocracy—aided and abetted by a Republican-controlled Congress that will not constrain him with guardrails—the United States is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests. It is now, in short, a petrostate.
This rag, along with Scientific American where their editor resigned after a hate-filled anti-Trump social media rant, are prime examples of why journalism has become the second oldest profession.
1 posted on 11/16/2024 6:18:07 PM PST by DoodleBob
To: All
WaPo is owned by Bezos.
NYT was bailed out by a Mexican billionaire with alleged cartel ties.
MSM is the propaganda arm of the oligarchy.
They want to shut up anyone questioning the ruling elites as they hate free speech, our First Amendment, and our countries as they see themselves as globalists - one world government that’ll eventually be under the control of the Antichrist.
We are nationalists. We recognize America’s unique role in history. We are capable of reason and debate.
They are in darkness and do the works of their father, Satan.
So yeah. Will be conflict.
2 posted on 11/16/2024 6:21:49 PM PST by TigerClaws
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