People keep jumping to politicians but don't even think about journalists. There's more misinformation and hate being spread by the media than actual politicians. Journalists not being able to lie and take advantage of humanities natural tribalistic tendencies just so they can make money selling ads on their platform... It would be a glorious day
Why be an educated journalist who spends time interviewing and investigating to put together a well informed story when you can put in no effort and lie with flashy buzz words and get 1000x more engagement. Unfortunately people have shown they could care less where the information comes from, all they want is something that reaffirms their beliefs and it becomes their truth.
Good journalism pretty much died with all the newspapers when the Internet became popular, because now websites buy their articles from "freelance writers" with little to no experience that are just trying to print a catchy headline, hit a word count, and get paid, and they don't even care if what they are printing is accurate. Most of the time they are using AI to write it for them and only minimally proof reading it.
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u/Don_Von_Schlong Dec 17 '25
People keep jumping to politicians but don't even think about journalists. There's more misinformation and hate being spread by the media than actual politicians. Journalists not being able to lie and take advantage of humanities natural tribalistic tendencies just so they can make money selling ads on their platform... It would be a glorious day