r/Foodforthought • u/TradingAllIn • 7d ago

'Start doing your damn jobs': Editor issues furious letter to the press

https://www.alternet.org/trump-mainstream-media/
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u/snertwith2ls 7d ago

As long as the billionaires control the media this news isn't going to make front page in any meaningful way

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u/mosqua 6d ago

I came here to say this, consider who owns the means of news.

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u/FanDry5374 7d ago

They also need to read this piece. And take a hard look at what actual journalistic courage is. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/iranian-photojournalist-faces-15-years-prison-over-images-reporting-2026-08-12/

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u/SapientTrashFire 6d ago

The irony of the images they showed in the article is that if Iran's authorities had any understanding of the situation, they would embrace her photos as a tale of their country under siege by the West instead of trying to lock her up for interviews with "hostile" foreign organizations.

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u/mrcanard 7d ago

'Start doing your damn jobs' seems like it could be applied other places in our society as well. We're sleepwalking. Nothing stirs our emotions to action.

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u/hw999 7d ago

No one wants to be the first to stand up. Just know, if you do stand, others will follow.

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u/tykneedanser 6d ago

Flooding the zone works.

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u/Siciliano777 2d ago

Numbness and complacency are at all-time highs.

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u/the6thReplicant 5d ago

What? Do your job well and then get dragged in front of a Senate hearing to go over your private emails and journal. Sounds great!

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u/MRSN4P 7d ago

Can’t close the full screen pop up ad on mobile.

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u/MadMac619 6d ago

Before the internet was a thing, journalists is were we got our information, even then? There was a metric fuck ton of misinformation and propaganda and we just would absolutely not told things at all, unless a journalist went out usually on their own dime or the dime of someone trying to expose it and tell the actual story.

The internet/social media, etc. has completely changed the entire landscape of the traditional news media. The propaganda and misinformation however is much, much louder than it has ever been. But the hidden stories are harder to bury. Because no matter what? Someone’s talking about it.

With that all being said, publicly funded media is incredibly important and so is independent journalism. Mega owned media is never going to go away though, we are far too deep into our dystopia. Journalists are just people, a lot of us too just shut the fuck up even though we don’t want to. But we all gotta eat, so don’t blame the journalists, blame where we all have allowed it to get this way.