“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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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 🤔

