“Journalism is printing what someone does not want printed, everything else is PR” ironically applies to charges/countercharges of fake news too. It’s one idiot printing what another idiot does nor want printed.
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In both cases the mere hostility of a party with power is taken to be a proxy for truth. The heuristic is good for personally threatening news about stuff like corruption or crime. For matters of general factfulness, it’s basically noise.
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If I don’t want “birds aren’t real” stories published it isn’t a sign that the theory is true.
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that's why "comfort the afflicted & afflict the comfortable" is better binaristic pablum to describe journalism
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I don’t think I’ve heard this line in decades
But now that so many “journalists” seem to be third-generation-wealthy failsons and faildaughters and are themselves paragons of comfort, wonder whose job it is to afflict them 🤔
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why am i seeing such a weird subtext in this?
i’m reading: “news is only of value if there is divisive content in there that will trigger strong emotions (regardless of accuracy), otherwise it’s just a fluff piece”
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