What is journalism?

The tweet you posted was "A journalist would delete this tweet."

Now, the way I read "delete" is not "a journalist would never write this tweet" but "in light of the facts, a journalist would delete this tweet."

Except the facts kind say really bad things in relation to murder.

And, again, if we want to say she's a good example of a bad trend, OK...do all the bad trends exist among right-leaning journalists?

 

Of course not.

But that doesn't absolve Bari Weiss, or excuse this kind of Musk-sponsored chamber-of-commerce journalism, either.

 

I don't think any crime stats should be compared to 2020. Because of the coronavirus-related lockdowns, people were outside less in 2020 than other years. If people are outside less, there was less chance of them being a victim of a crime.

 

In some - not all - cities, certain crimes went up in 2020. Chalked up to pandemic, people shut in, not getting their frustrations out.

 

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I saw the thread title and somehow thought of Tom Clay's "What The World Needs Now".

"What is journalism?"
"I don't know what journaljism is."

Look it up.

 

Journalism is reporting facts neutrally to allow the reader to form their own opinion.

Fox, and their ilk, omit, alter, invent “facts” to entertain the viewer or reader.

Fox is in no way journalism. It’s entertainment.

Under this strict definition, though, editorials and features do not fall under journalism, either. That part of the newspaper entertains or persuades.

 

What is journalism? Baby don't hurt me.