Title 42 ended, but because the Biden Administration planned ahead and is actually competent, we didn’t see a crush of migrants streaming across the border.
The media, probably: “Border crossings are surprisingly lower. Here’s how that’s bad for the White House.”
Given all that's happened in the past few years, I'm under the impression that actual "news" should not be anywhere near any algorithms at all, ever.
@joytoworld93 @genecowan @georgetakei News is boring when it is badly presented or doesn’t connect with a reader or viewer. If there’s no clear reason to care, why should they?
It’s not really a choice between boring news and sensationalism.
Unsensational news doesn’t sell a whole lot; it doesn’t make anyone rich and it doesn’t make reporters famous; but #localnews still matters.
I can't believe how disappointed some media sound. Like they wanted a full-on invasion and fighting in the streets.
We're all just fodder for the press.
@georgetakei Listen, I can do that, it's easy
It's bad for the White House because the White House is running the same xenophobic anti-immigration playbook the Trump administration did and it shouldn't have surprised anyone when the fears never manifested and it turns out there was never any justification for running concentration camps on the border, not even "Title 42"
@jamesbritt @georgetakei At AZCentral (the Republic’s website) I find nothing like that. Two stories about locals helping migrants. Arizona Daily Star site has no “border crisis” stories at all. AZ Mirror has an interview in which Sen. Sinema alleges a border crisis but little else about it.
“The media” is a wide spectrum and the behavior of a radio station or a cable news network or a NY Times does not define the whole.
@jamesbritt @georgetakei I heard a republican candidate state that the border should be closed completely until we have border reform.
My interpretation of that comment is that every person crossing the boarder currently is a crisis. Take note of whoever is controlling the media at your local station. Bias in news reporting always goes straight up to the owner.
I watch this station (ABC15) in the morning because they are generally less obnoxious than the other local news shows.
Still, they clearly have their biases, e.g. often opting for cop-talk ("officer-involved shooting") when reporting police activities.
@anubis2814 @georgetakei I don’t bother with TV news much, even though I know some TV journalists. The format and the focal points (and their incentives) don’t do it for me.
Political analysis on the major networks I find mostly dull, superficial and unimaginative, stuck in predictable tropes.
To what I think does not deserve attention, I deny attention.
I often find there is better work being done in #localnews. So I seek that out and boost it.
@algernon @georgetakei@universeod, I think the issue today, vs. 50 years ago is that most of the media is no longer focused on true journalism.
Years ago, you’d take a lackluster news journalist from a newsroom back office and develop them into an on-air personality, whereas today, you take any flashy and sexy on-air personality, and pawn them off as a reporter by having them read the news from a teleprompter.
The newspeople in the back room who feed the teleprompter are expected to create news with high sensationalism (even if it's fake) so as to increase ratings and advertising revenue. Journalism today is largely dead.
@algernon I greatly prefer printed sources, where a journalist has researched a news topic and devoted a LOT of space to its content, anticipating the readers questions and getting them all answered. And of course there are always multiple sides to any story so a good journalist will provide all sides of a story.
I have my own litmus test. Basically when read or listen to any news, if I have questions that were not answered, then I consider it was bad, or a complete lack of journalism. Most broadcast news, radio or TV fails my litmus test miserably. If I hear some significant news item, I'll seek the printed news in publications such as the WSJ, Atlantic, Forbes, NYT’s, Christian Science and others to really learn about it.
@georgetakei Wouldn't it be great if our media outlets could just report the facts, without all of their personal opinions? They could have simply reported, "so far border crossings are down after Title 42 ended, and the WhiteHouse commented…." And if the WhiteHouse didn't comment, then they should report, "no comment from the WhiteHouse.”
But these talking heads with all of their analysis, opinions and comments are helping to divide our country by telling the "easily influenced” how to think. I really don't recall Walter Cronkite or previous news anchors sharing their opinions regarding the news.
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