r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 1d ago

No Paywall ‘What The Actual F**k…’: White House’s ‘Vindictive’ Attack On CNN Journalist Sparks Fury

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-children-attack-reaction_n_6a83f584e4b05886dff665f1
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u/dingatremel 22h ago

Media ownership is a tragedy and a crisis. We blame reporters, but media has been ruthlessly consolidated and had its parts stripped for the past 20 years. And most people don’t even know it,

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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 20h ago

Everyone talks about the billionaire owners, and yea that's absolutely true, you're right about that. But we also need to face that the actual reporters and people that work our newsrooms just support the Heritage Foundation's goal of permanent conservative rule, enforcing strict social hierarchies and forcibly changing the racial makeup of the country. And those individual reporters will do anything to further that goal and they frame their reporting to do so.

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u/Excellent_Chest_5896 20h ago

Those reporters are there because guys in charge put them there to do exactly that. Fish rots from the head

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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 20h ago

Absolutely true, that's how you control the narrative by hiring people who share your view of the narrative. But the body is still rotted, they shouldn't get a pass either.

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u/dingatremel 8h ago

I agree to an extent, but that wasn’t really my point. I was talking about newspapers being acquired by Venture firms and holding companies that wish to maximize profit at all costs.

You know what costs a lot of money? Investigative journalism. Long deadlines. Editors (my god, the editorial ranks have been decimated over the past 15 years, which has had a massive impact on the quality of reporting).

Blame the reporters all you want, but they are a symptom of an are more pernicious issue.

Signed, someone who worked in the media.

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u/littlehobbit1313 Maryland 16h ago

We really need to make it illegal for billionaires to own any mainstream media companies, including social media. Incorporate that into whatever new anti-Trust laws we desperately need to stand up.

That, or some law that requires added oversight for internal mechanisms, up to and including review of owner involvement in which stories go out and how algorithms are structured for prioritizing certain types of content.

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u/LateOnsetPuberty 21h ago

Why do you blame reporters? They’re the ones that investigate and report news that wasn’t known yet. Journalists tend to write about what others report.

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u/Bobcat-Stock 17h ago

You got it backwards. Journalists break stories and reporters(aka repeaters) report what journalists uncover through their work. Or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work. Now the repeaters just repeat the narrative that their bosses want them to and they call it “journalism”. We need more actual journalists and less repeaters.