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- Teacher: Good morning, class! Today, I brought a visitor! A true institution of our town, that is! Carl Greenwood!
- Teacher: Mr. Greenwood is the journalist who–
- Student #1: A journalist!? EL-O-EL
- Student #2: I have ten questions. Number 7 will surprise you!
- Student #3: If I ask the “wrong” questions, will you then put my name and address on Twitter?
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Velgar wrote:
No, I’m focusing less on journalism and more on this being a “the worlds completely horribly and so is every young person in existence” bit.
Just saying that the older crowd has it’s own share of contribution (i.e. racism, sexism, homophobia).
@ Velgar:
The world has changed much faster than people have adapted. The elderly have absolutely nothing of value teach the younger generations.
*cries in journalism* :’-(
joinwaon wrote:
Wouldn’t go that far either. All generations have their ups and downs.
Only reason to play the “us VS them” crap is because one thinks that being on the proverbial winning team makes them a winner by associate.
@ Velgar:
Totally agree:
– It’s easier to say “they are stupid” then to listen and think.
– If nobody teaches you that, but everybody makes you think you are always right, just because you are young, this results in overconfidence and filter bubble egocentrism.
– Politeness would help here a lot, but that’s outdated, too, at least in the West. (Since it requires effort and effort is uncool.)
Just to point out: every generation complaints about the younger generation’s misbehavior. That’s normal. Already Sokrates did that. – But if the older generation gives up and just says “whatever, do what’s fun for you” we are not getting anywhere. 😉
Nobody wrote:
Sure but it is possible to critique without the “all young people are scum”. Besides, those who encourage racism, sexism or the (say voting such person into the White House) like forfeit the right to chide other for poor conduct.
@ erejnion:
Don’t be too sure that YouTube will soon become a place for finding quality journalism. They have been engaging in the practice of demonetizing content and even entire channels on their “platform” which runs against political correctness, something quality journalism tends to do, and even managing content in such a way that it cannot be found easily, if at all, in a search on the website. “Publisher” would be a more accurate term than “platform” for what YouTube is given their practices these days.
For some context on the doxing: Someone recently posted a video of Nancy Pelosi on Facebook that a “reporter” from The Daily Beast didn’t like. I know the clip video that is not edited misleadingly (only “edited” in that clips were pulled from the full video) is being claimed to have been edited misleadingly, but I don’t know if the particular video posted to the Facebook page is that one or a meme video.
Either way, this “reporter” called up Facebook, and Facebook gave him VERY personal information about one of the moderators for the group to which it was posted. This was information that he wanted to keep private because he is a black Trump supporter in the Bronx, and therefore it would be incredibly dangerous for him if people in his neighborhood knew about his support for Trump. The “reporter” listed all this extremely personal information in his article (some of the negative stuff was wrong, according to the targeted individual) that was released not two weeks ago.
There are about half a dozen examples provided above, too. And these aren’t the only ones. It’s pretty horrifying, and it’s a large part of why people don’t trust so-called “news” outlets anymore.
Ah gamergate, when a bunch of gamers were annoyed at how much favourable coverage a woman got for her twine game, specifically from the journalist she was sleeping with.
Journalists then stated there were no reviews, a factually correct, yet irrelevant statement designed to frame the entire movement as completely unreasonable. Then people on both sides started getting threats, harassed and doxxed.
Hard to believe the dialogue between the corrupt asshole journalists and those in opposition to their corrupt assholeishness, has got to such a state that the shitstorm of 2014 is preferable. I may just have been naive back then, but I don’t recall many dissenting journalists being attacked for opposing the first lot.
@Nobody @Velgar
I’m referring to a very specific kind of journalist. Specifically the ones I describe.
@ Malin:
It seems that more than a few people who “claim” to be “journalists” do a lot of “rumors, heresay, and opinion” articles, often without checking and verifying anything resembling facts, much less, established facts. Whatever, their “intentions” were, it often ends up as click-bait to get a knee-jerk reaction, ( outrage in this case) to get views and likes. A few of those people will even go so far as to attack other who question, or worse, dissagree with the article’s writer; going so far as to find the person’s real name, address, place of work, etc… in an attempt to “ruin” that person socially and financially. Because, “How dare you ask me to show proof of my outlandish claim, you must be on of those (fill in the blank for whatever seems to be OK to attack this week).”