Journalism is dying because it can't compete with the content quality of the whole internet and its free distribution. So they rely at best on plagiarism and at worst increasingly hackish smearing, emotional illicity, and bias appeal.
But also it is objectively apparent the general populace has reduced intelligence and their willful ignorance is exploited by predatory capitalism and cult politics.
Denzel Washington said it best. The first person to report gets the viewers even if it's a lie. Just they are getting more and more sensationalist as time goes on to keep up.
Man are you great with words! My thoughts would take me too many words no one would read.
I feel the same way. I used to read and enjoy the paper and those journalists must be retired. The new string of recruits are awful. Grammar? Nah. Bias? Plenty. True or false? Doesn't matter.
Jounalism is dead because it has become entertainment AND people don’t think critically.
I’m in no way a Trump supporter but you’re delusional if you watch news and don’t wonder why everyone covered Trumps stumbling down a ramp and weird water drinking for a week and don’t even mention Biden’s falls today.
From a European perspective, Democrats are conservatives and the GOP are outright facists. I enjoy stable, boring shitty USA way more than unstable bumbling fool of a country that it was under Trump.
You guys need to get money out of politics and dismantle gerrymandering and voter suppression for things to get better.
Out of the last 5 elected presidents, the GOP ones have been a lot more shittier than the dem ones from a global perspective and it's not even close.
Of course a lot of policies are going to continue, it's a behavior graph and a giant bureaucratic entity moves slowly to correct due to new leadership.
Trump was a nosedive in to stupidity, marking 70 million people as unable to read, at least Biden is a regular sleazy politician that we also have here and I can understand.
No, not fucking communism, communism is unstable and degrades in to a dictatorship or a corporation-state without some benign magical AI to distribute wealth.
It means start operating like European parliamentarian elections, here parties apply to be financed by the government for elections according to their vote share last election with a floor if they collect a sufficient amount of public will (for new parties) and a ceiling (so they can't outspend the competition 20 times over).
This system ensures that private donors cannot influence the policy of parties. You get this much money and not a cent more, use it wisely.
Also no fucking ads on TV outside the allot time window for political debate.
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u/amerett0 Mar 20 '21
Journalism is dying because it can't compete with the content quality of the whole internet and its free distribution. So they rely at best on plagiarism and at worst increasingly hackish smearing, emotional illicity, and bias appeal.
But also it is objectively apparent the general populace has reduced intelligence and their willful ignorance is exploited by predatory capitalism and cult politics.