12-17-2021, 08:32 PM
(12-17-2021, 07:15 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I'm a full-blown cynic, so take this with a grain of salt...but I people don't want "fair" and they don't want "truth" they want to be told what they already believe is fair and true. It's the same thing with freedom...people want to say they are all about freedom and therefore rather than begrudgingly accept that people have freedom to do things they don't like or they don't agree with, they find reasons to explain why that form of freedom is bad and therefore opposing it isn't anathema to supporting freedom.
Americans are individualistic and egotistical, and as much as people want to act like the whole "snowflake, me me me" stuff is new, well it ain't.
Ok, I'll take my sunshine elsewhere for now.
Dude, it's literally impossible to do my job and not grow cynical. Thankfully, I started out cynical so it wasn't much of an adjustment.
But on this subject I do see people waking up and starting to question bullshit. There's always going to be a market for partisan hackery that comforts and soothes, that makes people feel like they're part of the "in crowd", but I honestly believe that there's a sizeable market out there for real, fact based, journalism. At the very least I hope so, because the journalism profession is in a sorry state right now. Although, it's hard to say how much of the really bad reporting, or rather editorialist wording in hard news items, is coming from editors and not the journalists themselves.
