I’m kinda sick of the news media trying to manage expectations or even perceptions. Beyond a baseline of not inducing panic or extreme complacency, that’s not your damn job. It’s a stupid mission to take on that doesn’t benefit either you or the news consumer. It just adds noise.
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Journalism is the one kind of writing I *know* I cannot do. The one time I tried it was such high effort I decided never to try again. So as an essayist/opinionator, when I look at a piece of “news” and go “I could have written that” it means it is not journalism.
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The *only* difference between the writing I do as a blogger/“newsletter” writer and much of supposed “news” is that I don’t bother to call up a few easily accessible people desperate for the spotlight to comment. If you aren’t quoting reluctant-to-talk people it ain’t news.
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Access journalism isn’t news either. It is extended PR based on inter-institutional mutual complicity. The old definition is still the best: journalism is printing something someone powerful does not want you to print, everything else is PR. If you can’t live up to that...
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...there’s really no good reason for your existence as an industry. Blogs/newsletters can do your job, more cheaply, and much better in 90% of cases where expertise matters. This would be unfortunate. Because actual news reporting is something we *cannot* do and needs doing.
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I think you make many valid points. I also think setting up true journalism as “I’ll know it when I see it” is kind of absurd. Not to mention, journalism has never been just one thing, and is not static. You sound like you want to apply some kind of purity test.
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