The best journalists find a way to be impartial, truthful, and interesting at the same time. That takes more time and effort than cheap spin, though. We need to find a way to incentivize the good stuff.
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You left out charitable. ;-) There’s nothing wrong w/partiality as long as opposing viewpoints are represented fairly & charitably. It requires humility & introspection on the part of writers and editors - which is rare at a time when stats are the measure of success.
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Attention really is the key - regulating one's own attention, and the instutions we outsource this insanely mammoth task to (e.g. facebook, twitter, news agencies) do not have the required incentives, so long as people insist on their products being (or pretending to be) free.
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Specialization based on customer segmentation and target audience is one of the cornerstones of running a successful business in a competetive market. News outlets are not immune to this.
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It depends on whether "the need to be interesting" is equivalent to "the need to make money." I'm not sure that they are the same. Profit motive, the lack of expertise, and the lack of accountability strike me as the dangerous combination.
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I thought the purpose of journalism was to make the least possible effort needed to sell the most possible eyeballs to advertisers. The market for accurate reporting and analysis is pretty small.
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The capitalist system in which journalism is embedded, itself is an implicit political agenda.
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I was going to say it's probably dealing with the false perception that we all have the attention span of a goldfish. But I dare say "be interesting" is in there.
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"Recency Illusion" It has always been thus.
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