What is journalism?

[Alma]

The tweet I posted was Weiss calling out a progressive DA for a "soaring" increase in crime.

The Nocera piece doesn't really demonstrate cause and effect - or a progressive DA - as the root of the increase in crime.

I'm not refuting your post, because this is a thread about journalism and Bari Weiss is a very good example of a very bad trend.

And as to "yeah but," maybe Texas gun law has as much to do with it as anything.

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?

 

[Azrael]

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.

 

[Mr. X]

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.

 

[Alma]

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.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

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.

 

[Azrael]

Of course not.

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

 

[Scout]

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.

 

[Slacker]

"What is journalism?"
"Umm ... I think it's when somebody's sick."

 

[Twirling Time]

What is journalism? Baby don't hurt me.

 

[Songbird]