NBC put incendiary devices in the back of GM trucks so as to make them explode upon impact, and aired it as "news." Dan Rather created a forged document regarding G.W. Bush's military service and passed it off as genuine, and only got caught because he used a font that did not exist at the time the document was supposedly created. Then there was ABC during the "white Hispanic" Zimmerman/Martin issue. They edited the 911 tape to make Zimmerman seem to be a racist, and exclusively showed pictures of Martin when he was 9 years old versus all his current adult social media pics of him living the thug life. When Obama is in office Chris Matthews claims that the media is supposed to support the president. Trump gets in office and he says the media is supposed to hold the president accountable. Makes one wonder if they would have covered up a president's polio (or his dementia) "for the good of the nation" if he were a Republican. Plus so many more sins of omission and commission.
That is all true, but journalism seemed to change after the Nixon era when news outlets realized they could take down a government or destroy a company /candidate.
A while back, I read a report on the reasons journalism students gave for wanting to become journalists. The most common answer was to change the world, or something to that effect.
I was watching some Joe Rogan clips and ran across this one with Sanjay Gupta (medical "expert" on CNN). Gupta seems like a reasonable person but he is clearly out of his depth with Rogan. This was 3 years ago during the covid nonsense on CNN about ivermectin being a "horse wormer". 5 minute video
I was interested in journalism because my brother was an intern at a newspaper at the time. Neither of us stuck with it because it was a very poorly compensated career path. I do remember that the emphasis on factual reporting was a basic tenant of journalism and I wonder how that went so wrong.
Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, seem to face the same thing from media or worse. In the UK they talk about imprisoning new media voices (or even personal social media voices?) that don't toe the State line: "Something WORSE Than Prison Camps Coming" - Murray's Last Warning Not speaking other languages, I don't get as much direct info on the EU members.
Trump is proposing a major change to white house press briefings - inviting Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, etc. Daily Wire "Donald Trump is considering giving the likes of Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly a seat in the White House press briefing room instead of mainstream media journalists in a plot that will 'blow up some heads'. The stunning plan was revealed by the president-elect's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. on a recent episode of his podcast 'Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.' Speaking to his co-host Michael Knowles, Jr. admitted that the incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt may rework the briefing room seating arrangement to make way for Trump's new podcast 'bro' buddies. This is gonna be great. But it's exactly what folks here have been saying...broadcast news is not where people get their information.
I thought this was interesting. I have no point to make with it...it's just Thought Fodder. This is from AllSides. Link to this analysis.
BBC, PBS and Newsweek are center?? Not hardly. And freakin' yahoo (as well as NBC, CBS, ABC) does not "lean;" it is solid LEFT.
I thought the same thing about Reuters and WSJ. And FOX has a legacy rep for being Right. Today they may lean, but that's about it.