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What is journalism?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Regan MacNeil, Feb 17, 2023.

  1. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Certainly 'journalism' and 'propaganda' are not interchangeable.

    An argument can be made that when Ailes built FoxNews, he was doing so as a corrective to a lefty press. I disagree with that argument.

    Because the mainstream press in this country has never been leftist, or even very 'liberal.'

    Fox News may or may not be a newsgathering operation, but in prime time it has only ever been a right wing / Republican opinion megaphone.

    So another question here is this: Is 'opinion journalism' really journalism?

    When labeled as such, sure. That's why there's an OpEd page in the paper.

    But presenting opinion as news - as straight reporting - is deception. Propaganda.

    Very much on the order of excusing Limbaugh or Alex Jones - or Father Coughlin - as an 'entertainer.'
     
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  2. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    But it's why FoxNews was founded.

    FoxNews is working exactly as it was designed to work.

    It's important to remember that.
     
  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    What I've found interesting about the revelations in the last couple of days is that Fox News doesn't "guide" conservative thought, but follows whatever talking points will hold on to its viewers, true or not.
     
  4. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

  6. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    A lot of of that around these days, though, isn't there?
     
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  7. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    That being the case, we certainly don't need more of it from Bari Weiss.
     
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  8. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I'm not real hip to Weiss' current work, though I did read the first Wash U. story from the person who worked there.

    And I've liked Taibbi's work quite a bit at times...but I find the last 2-3 months of stuff pretty impenetrable.
     
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  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Last edited: Apr 6, 2023
  10. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Like Greenwald, Taibbi is off the rails.

    Who edits these guys?

    No one.
     
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  11. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I’m not sure I’ve ever read Greenwald.
     
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  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    goin' great!

     
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