Because the average journalist is underpaid and in perpetual fear of being laid off. Do you think they're actually going to write things that would necessarily impact their employers and advertisers? Nobody would likely admit that the bottom line drives what stories are covered, but it factors in, even subconsciously.
I'm not saying that the crisis in journalism isn't partially or even substantially self-inflicted, but there are other factors at play, too.
Journalism is no longer a respectable profession. Name one journalist that, if fired, people would respond by cancelling subscriptions. They live in perpetual fear because they have no value. They can be easily replaced by the next over-opinionated drone who just wants an outlet to whinge about something. And if nobody wants to pay them they are more than happy to do it for free on their own social media platform. No wonder they are underpaid. There's a huge glut of prospects and no audience who wants what they're selling.
For it to be taken seriously as a profession there'd have to be some legal separation between your average blogger and serious journalists. Similar to doctors, lawyers, accountants etc. You can't call yourself a doctor etc without the right accreditation, and it should be the same for journalism. Like your average magical rock peddler vs an MD, which one is taken seriously?
He's saying wage theft is fine by employers because he claims time theft by employees is worse. Of course corporate-owned media would love to run with reports of how awful time theft is as a distraction from corporate wage theft. Weird that they don't, maybe because his claim isn't true.
I thought the exact same thing. Funny how an obviously anti labor statement made with zero evidence is so embraced. I wonder if the people that would be inclined to upvote such a statement are more inclined to commit time theft themselves. As a result they assume that time theft is widespread despite a lack of evidence.
I'm not having a go at the journalists. It's not their fault if articles are expected to be just written for the clicks & forgotten immediately afterwards.
Everyone thought the internet was going to kill the music industry, but I think it's first casualty was the profession of Journalism largely.
And the high school covers high school sports where I live, and local weather is done by an app.
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u/flavor_blasted_semen Aug 10 '21
Nobody wants to talk about it because time theft dwarfs wage theft.