The main difference: I don't think a typical journalist finds it rewarding to have his or work panned, even if it results in a spike on the analytics dash that would be nice if it weren't the result of viral loathing
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I think the assumption that journalists write controversial content for clicks is mostly wrong. I think they largely do it to assert influence on the narrative that makes up shared mainstream/tribe reality, something that neither blasé nor universally-derided work accomplishes
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As motivations go, influencing the narrative may seem better than driving up pageviews, but it still means constantly needing to either discover or manufacture novel stories. And one of those is a lot easier to do than the other
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It's quite often the case that when a reporter gets a story "wrong," there never was any way to get it right; getting the story right would turn it into a non-story
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Bernard Goldberg did that in 'Bias' twenty years ago.https://www.amazon.com/Bias-Insider-Exposes-Media-Distort/dp/0895261901 …
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My deepest take on this is that journalists are always after a Story. That story might not always line up with reality.
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MSM has turned into sensationalist material written by gig workers for maximum click/view revenue. Some of it with motivation to drive elections whichever way their money lords want it to go in. I doubt most journalists are real anymore and just pretty faces to put on gig papers.
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Searched for these tweets today cuz they're an interesting/great take on journalism I've never heard b4pic.twitter.com/qeXPJaSOjI
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If what they coated about was running a profitable business they wouldn’t be journos
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