RustyBertrandShame on the media. They failed the test.
Charles Herold@RustyBertrand Also failed 10,000,000 makeup exams.
Claude
Immer die Radfahrer@RustyBertrand
I don't know about the quote's origin, though …
RealGene ☣️@RustyBertrand
Alt-text:
A person holding a hand-written cardboard sign that says:
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.
Everything else is public relations.
—George Orwell
eribosot@RustyBertrand Misattributed to Orwell: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/
Pomegranate County Irregulars@RustyBertrand I was going to ask if that was truly Orwell. It doesn’t seem likely to me as Orwell was not that glib to my casual acquaintance with his work.
Even if it was, its direct implication is that the scandal sheets are the paragons of journalism; this seems incorrect.
Dannyboyguyman@pomCountyIrregs @RustyBertrand replace the word 'what' with 'truth' and it could work as an aphorism
Journalism is printing truth someone else doesn't want printed...
Kevin Marks@pomCountyIrregs @RustyBertrand No, it's not Orwell. It's apocryphal https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/
Orwell's quote is "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_George_Orwell
FanRivista Fanzina Generalista@RustyBertrand @umbertomellino
https://www.fanrivista.it/2022/12/scriviamo-quello-che-non-vorremmo.html
In questo post si parla di giornalismo e media partendo da quella frase che molti attribuiscono a Orwell (attribuzione incerta come si spiega nell'indagine "filologica" all'inizio dell'articolo)
The Gneech! Awww Yeah@RustyBertrand I kinda feel like there should be something about telling the truth in there, as well. ^.^'
Mike McCaffrey 
@RustyBertrand @YakyuNightOwl To be fair, 99% of what they print is something I don't want them to be printing.
Staid WinnowTraditional media is dying. They either cover what people want to see covered or they'll go extinct. Because people will entertain themselves on social media news.
Until good journalists can make a sustainable living on new media not owned by rightwing moguls, there is no hope.
Musk bought Twitter to control the narrative. As did Bezos. Murdoch did that for traditional media.
Woodward who exposed Watergate is now slow-drippng news in profitable, well-timed book releases.
E_Nonymouse@RustyBertrand There has to be a line to draw on that theme, because otherwise you get trash like TMZ gossiping about the personal lives of people who don't matter and its being treated as 'news' while people are dying to corruption, genocide etc, that real news is shoved to the side.