Journalism is in the Toilet

[Dill]

(03-16-2021, 07:15 PM)TheUberHuber Wrote: Regardless of nyt, the call was inappropriate and could be evidence in a criminal investigation.  maybe actually listen to it before making a thread about it. Also, they made a correction,  which is how journalism works. 

Yeah, this is not really a good example of how journalism in general has "degenerated into something not worth paying attention to."

Doesn't help the credibility of the person making the charge if he has not even listened to the first tape between the Georgia Secretary of State and Trump, which is really the basis for people "losing their minds" over Trump's efforts to fix the election. Critics of journalism should themselves exhibit the due diligence they expect of reporters. 

There is no world in which journalists will never make transcription errors from summaries given them by politicians. There was no golden age in which such mistakes never happened, and from which we are now "rolling downhill." If we want to properly judge journalists' work, we don't fix on transcription errors which are as much the fault of the source, but rather look at the whole--in this case, the mass of factual information about Trump's calls which has been corroborated and corrected by many sources.

Bottom line is we know about Trump's calls and their implications for the election precisely because journalists were doing their job.

And everyone here is relying on journalists accounts to make his points.