Daniel BellingradtJan 25
As a historian with a focus on the history of news media and communication: the reported news itself was/is never ‚what happened‘. It is a construction, an interpretation, a mediated version of a perceived event. And therefore news reports were always about making realities.

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Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
It is a propaganda push to construct your own interpretation of ‚what really happened‘. This will be one mediated reality.
Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
But there is another reality, of course. And this reality of what happened is on video.
Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
The result is a conflict of realities. Choose your own interpretation. And stay away from journalists that cannot do the reporting properly.
Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
This kind of constructing your own reality via media is rooted in our news systems. Manipulation is part of the game from the beginning.
Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
What we see in our days is a intensified version of news manipulation that was present in the past too.
Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
It is and always was a theatre, and at the moment an absurd play is presented.
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The news system as it is nowadays stands no chance to stay alive. The attention to ‚news realities‘ will fade away.
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Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
The overall result is called news fatigue, and this is a media effect. #NewsFatigue
Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
The old media world needs to die, and is dying to be honest, and something new will start eventually. We will see and feel this new start soon. I am sure.
Show threadDaniel BellingradtJan 25
Goodbye news world, nice meeting you, you did your best, but it is time to move on.
Show threadMarkus PösselJan 25
For the Pretti murder, I see news media parroting state lies, but I also see news media (Bellingcat, NYT) doing good work reconstructig what happened, and I see how useful it is to be able to point to that journalistic work. In the light of that, "news media is dead, we have to wait for 1/
Show threadMarkus PösselJan 25
something new" not only sounds unrealistic to me. It also seems to play directly into the hands of those who have been trying to convince us that it's all subjective, that all journalism should be doubted. And who by doing so have played a key part in creating the current combination of 2/
Show threadMarkus PösselJan 25
predominantly journalistic and predominantly propaganda news media. The people who are trying to make us stop care about whether we are looking at sloppy-partisan journalism or at journalism that at least tries to tell us as faithfully as possible what's what. So yes, I'm somewhat disappointed 3/
Show threadMarkus PösselJan 25
to read that you are, for whatever reasons and I am assuming not on purpose, helping to further the agenda of the people who have brought us into that mess, and helping discredit some of the tools (that is, honest and professional journalism) that we need to clean up the mess. 4/4