First amendment is dying, when second coming to life?

It's amazing what passes for journalism these days.

It's like this in every part of journalism. People just parrot whatever the police chief says, the tech CEO says, and the press release says. It's getting to the point now where you cannot even get an honest journalistic review of any product, and each major product launch is reported on the national news and sometimes repeated on the local news as if that's anything but just free marketing for the corporation releasing the product.

We blurred all the lines together to the point where now the media is just a marketing and propaganda arm of whatever they are covering.

See, that part is correct. An appropriate authority must provide the classification of a material before it's released. Everything coming out of the DoD has a release authority attached to it. Every picture of two people shaking hands is 'released' by the DoD...

But the whole idea of a pledge before showing up to a press pool is downright silly.

"Well, yes, Queef Hegseth, I didn't use any outside materials, the coauthors of the piece did though and my editor included it. Nothing I could do."

Principled Reporter is an extinct profession, like caddy butcher or phrenologist.

Yeah, they're probably the best large American news reporting organization left, but they are far far far from perfect and their biggest problem is they try to normalize and sanitize everything the United States does

Yeap.... I can barely listen to npr anymore. Their interviewing process is basically just a platform for fascist to make wild claims without any sort of actual pushback. At most at the end of the segment the host will make a mild rebuttal about one aspect of their interview. But most of the time it's just "well that's all the time we have".

There's no pushback or fact checking, or even giving equal time to an opposing view. They should be hammering every inaccurate claim made by these assholes. If there isn't enough time in your programming to do so, then you shouldn't have these liars on your show to begin with.

Journalism is dead, and it's because the whole field is a walled garden where the only people who can afford to get their foot in the door or take the unpaid internships are nepo babies and trust fund kids, and those people don't have backbones.

They don't call it Nice Polite Republicans for nothing.

Janine Jackson on Counterspin seems like the last sane media commentator.

And Geedubz for 8 more. And Bush the 1. And Ronnie Raygun.

Shit, they got so thouroughly pwned after 9/11, I noped out then.

I mean, it’s all you get in a small town, but it hasn’t been really left in forever and a day.

😁 I like it

Only if they follow it