Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
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Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
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Re: Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
#2I think the old guard media has misstepped on this, not for ideological reasons but for clicks. More banal certainly, but somehow worse, I think. Even the conservative media continued to talk about it, railing against, because it drives clicks.
What we really need, and hopefully comes from this reckoning, is a new model of financing journalism that can be free to act in the public interest, and is built with that in its DNA.
Unfortunately, ideas on what's in the public interest are so vastly separated, I wonder if such a thing even makes sense to hope for.
Re: Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
#3I think the old guard media has misstepped on this, not for ideological reasons but for clicks. More banal certainly, but somehow worse, I think. Even the conservative media continued to talk about it, railing against, because it drives clicks. What we really need, and hopefully comes from this reckoning, is a new model of financing journalism that can be free to act in the public interest, and is built with that in…
No, it's pretty clear that a lot of reporters have compromised their ethics, or never had any. The article quotes several; it is in fact the entire point of the article. Of course you might also say that the _owners_ of the media don't care about this lack of ethics as long as they're making money. That's probably true, but it's not the same thing at all. The blame goes to the people who have no ethical standards, or who compromised them in favor of politics.
Re: Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
#4I think the old guard media has misstepped on this, not for ideological reasons but for clicks. More banal certainly, but somehow worse, I think. Even the conservative media continued to talk about it, railing against, because it drives clicks. What we really need, and hopefully comes from this reckoning, is a new model of financing journalism that can be free to act in the public interest, and is built with that in…
The click reasons, ideological reasons, and hate/fear reasons (of Trump as an interloper in the political class) fused into an alloy. It's impossible to separate these.
Re: Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
#5Taibbi has mellowed, alas, but at least he can still do this:
"Imagine how tone-deaf you’d have to be to not realize it makes you look bad, when news does not match audience expectations you raised. To be unaware of this is mind-boggling, the journalistic equivalent of walking outside without pants."
Re: Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
#6I think the old guard media has misstepped on this, not for ideological reasons but for clicks. More banal certainly, but somehow worse, I think. Even the conservative media continued to talk about it, railing against, because it drives clicks. What we really need, and hopefully comes from this reckoning, is a new model of financing journalism that can be free to act in the public interest, and is built with that in…
All media owned by large, profit-at-all-costs organizations is conservative media, regardless of their branding.
Re: Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
#7I think a lot of critique of events can be done with much better results by independent journalist (ex. on YouTube).
At least they put their own reputation on the line.
For instance, I regularly watch Tim Pool and he seems to be completely unbiased and covers culture-related news for the US.
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#8 So Viacom purchasing ad space on a video billboard in Times Square to push the 10 year old drag queen kid named Desmond, fits your version(definition) of conservative?
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#9I wanted to dislike this piece. But it’s a fantastic write up. It covers all the bases I was anticipating that it won’t.
The HN community might find this interesting:
Re: Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
#10Although I agree with many of the points here, unfortunately the piece itself has made the same mistake as the media it criticises: it's jumping to conclusions a little prematurely.
Why read so much into the lack of indictments when Mueller's team have agreed to the standard that they cannot indict a sitting president? [1] Let's just wait and see -- I'm fed of speculation at this point.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/muellers-team-told-t...