Andrea Junker Nov 17, 2022
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
Show threadWesDymNov 18, 2022

@Strandjunker I'd call this an over-simplification, in the "not even wrong" vein.

'Journalism' covers a lot of duties, one of which is reporting pretty much anything that any public figure says, no matter how asinine. The fact they said it is news all by itself, independent of truth or decency. The public have a right to know what leaders say, however stupid.

New ANALYSIS is related, but separate. This seems to be what's being addressed here, but not all news is analysis.

Show threadGaëtan PerraultAug 12, 2023

@wesdym @Strandjunker

'Journalism' covers a lot of duties, one of which is reporting pretty much anything that any public figure says, no matter how asinine

Read this statement again, but do so from the perspective of an attacker.

'Journalists' are a really dumb tool that will help me spread lies by repeating my statements unchecked.

In fact, thanks to research we know that simply repeating the lie, even to disprove it, actually helps spread it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/words-matter/201807/when-correcting-lie-dont-repeat-it-do-instead-2)

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Show threadGaëtan Perrault

@wesdym @Strandjunker

What you're describing is effectively a "keeper of public record". And while that is useful, It's not what any member of the public would define as journalism. The public would use the Oxford definition:

the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast

That "broadcast" part is important. Because that is a human judgement. Don't you think it's fair to ask humans to be better with their judgment? //

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Show threadWesDymAug 12, 2023

@gatesvp Media is not your mommy. And you shouldn't want to live in a world where media tell you what to think. If you're a legal adult, that's YOUR responsibility.

You can't child-proof democracy. And most attempts to do so, however well-intended, backfire horribly. At some point, adults have to take responsibility for themselves.

If they can't, then our species is doomed by its own folly anyway.

Show threadGaëtan PerraultAug 12, 2023

@wesdym

Do you notice how I provided clear, cited definition for the word journalism and then you completely ignored that?

Do you honestly think that ignoring that statement is somehow going to change my mind?

Show threadWesDymAug 12, 2023
@gatesvp Bye bye. Try to be less of a jerk.