The solutions here sound like The NY Times, which has the scale to do all the whiz-bang stuff. Others, like funding an American version of the BBC, are fantasy: the Trump administration is poised to shutter PBS.
I have a more fundamental objection to this piece: the assumption that US journalism is elitist. The NYT, maybe, but the tradition of journalism has been built on the grass roots, from Ida Tarbell to Studs Terkel. What’s elitist is the publisher. To wit: the Murdochs.
Journalists tend to lean left because they are trained to ask skeptical questions, and rightwing ideologues don’t have credible answers. Good editorial departments make sure that scrutiny is universal—lying and abuse of power are human traits—but again I’d link this to publishers, not the reporters.
The authors are right about trust, but offer no concrete or viable ideas. Here is one: surviving media companies must focus their resources on original and excellent journalism. The industry has made a fetish of clicks, which prioritized endless editorials and opinion pieces , and ephemera like lifestyle and sports. I like a bit of ephemera and op-ed but these should be bonus material, not front page or top-of-screen content. Because that’s what these are, content, not journalism. No more press releases, listicles, and other click bait. Maybe that’s a smaller and more focused news room…which sounds good to me.
It bewilders me how anyone with a critical thinking brain could trust a word that MSM says. They do not deserve our support. They deserve only our derision. After they blatantly lied for years about COVID-19, the vaccines, they deserve the inevitable death that is now occurring. The ABC in Australia, the BBC in the UK should be defunded and disbanded. An egregious and appalling betrayal of the people has occurred.
Your article has many good points, except the PAYWALLS on newspaper / legacy is what had started first, and the MSM didn’t take the time to organize a new format for digital publishing.
If we had small fees for single news chunks and a medium fee for bundled subscriptions- the journalist news would have had the population consume it better.
We in the U.S. just witnessed how poisonous our current MSM for elections. And the digital algorithms are creating a bubble silo where people won’t reach across the party line to see where there is common ground. The November 2024 Presidential election wasted an obscene amount of money, our MSM wasted so much time not covering the important news, our video streams bored the public with candidates making up their fantasy leaders, and we the public did DOUBLE-DUTY because we had to have the responsibility to QC and vet the litter we read, just to sort the fake news from the swamp disinformation.
"(A) BBC-like public broadcaster dedicated to high-level, fair-minded journalism – independent of the government and trying, at least, to steer clear of political bias."
Good grief! Only Iran and the Republic of Ireland truly deserve their own BBC. Broadcasting House needs to be burned to the ground and the smug collection of racists, bigots, child molesters and sundry perverts within should be chased into the Thames (or Manchester Ship Canal depending on which public funded cesspit of hypocrisy, dishonesty and depravity they're located).
In total agreement with La Politica. Podcasts have enabled virtually anyone to listen directly to the subjects of the news or those who are either close to the sources, or whose opinions are worthwhile. Those of us who employ critical thinking and common sense, can better understand most news that anything placed through the filter of what attempts to pass for professional journalism. The mainstream news has destroyed much of people's ability to employ critical thinking. Thankfully, this has changed as the recent US and other elections have shown. We, the people, don't need to be told what to hear and what to believe. We, the people know better.
The solutions here sound like The NY Times, which has the scale to do all the whiz-bang stuff. Others, like funding an American version of the BBC, are fantasy: the Trump administration is poised to shutter PBS.
I have a more fundamental objection to this piece: the assumption that US journalism is elitist. The NYT, maybe, but the tradition of journalism has been built on the grass roots, from Ida Tarbell to Studs Terkel. What’s elitist is the publisher. To wit: the Murdochs.
Journalists tend to lean left because they are trained to ask skeptical questions, and rightwing ideologues don’t have credible answers. Good editorial departments make sure that scrutiny is universal—lying and abuse of power are human traits—but again I’d link this to publishers, not the reporters.
The authors are right about trust, but offer no concrete or viable ideas. Here is one: surviving media companies must focus their resources on original and excellent journalism. The industry has made a fetish of clicks, which prioritized endless editorials and opinion pieces , and ephemera like lifestyle and sports. I like a bit of ephemera and op-ed but these should be bonus material, not front page or top-of-screen content. Because that’s what these are, content, not journalism. No more press releases, listicles, and other click bait. Maybe that’s a smaller and more focused news room…which sounds good to me.
No American institutuion has wrought as much damage to our shared civic fabric as corporate journalists, with their false balance and both sides BS - Americans are smart to tune it all out https://apnews.com/article/politics-fatigue-trump-gop-democrat-cnn-msnbc-b67aebae1a0853a1a3170ac588100bbd
It bewilders me how anyone with a critical thinking brain could trust a word that MSM says. They do not deserve our support. They deserve only our derision. After they blatantly lied for years about COVID-19, the vaccines, they deserve the inevitable death that is now occurring. The ABC in Australia, the BBC in the UK should be defunded and disbanded. An egregious and appalling betrayal of the people has occurred.
Your article has many good points, except the PAYWALLS on newspaper / legacy is what had started first, and the MSM didn’t take the time to organize a new format for digital publishing.
If we had small fees for single news chunks and a medium fee for bundled subscriptions- the journalist news would have had the population consume it better.
We in the U.S. just witnessed how poisonous our current MSM for elections. And the digital algorithms are creating a bubble silo where people won’t reach across the party line to see where there is common ground. The November 2024 Presidential election wasted an obscene amount of money, our MSM wasted so much time not covering the important news, our video streams bored the public with candidates making up their fantasy leaders, and we the public did DOUBLE-DUTY because we had to have the responsibility to QC and vet the litter we read, just to sort the fake news from the swamp disinformation.
"(A) BBC-like public broadcaster dedicated to high-level, fair-minded journalism – independent of the government and trying, at least, to steer clear of political bias."
Good grief! Only Iran and the Republic of Ireland truly deserve their own BBC. Broadcasting House needs to be burned to the ground and the smug collection of racists, bigots, child molesters and sundry perverts within should be chased into the Thames (or Manchester Ship Canal depending on which public funded cesspit of hypocrisy, dishonesty and depravity they're located).
In total agreement with La Politica. Podcasts have enabled virtually anyone to listen directly to the subjects of the news or those who are either close to the sources, or whose opinions are worthwhile. Those of us who employ critical thinking and common sense, can better understand most news that anything placed through the filter of what attempts to pass for professional journalism. The mainstream news has destroyed much of people's ability to employ critical thinking. Thankfully, this has changed as the recent US and other elections have shown. We, the people, don't need to be told what to hear and what to believe. We, the people know better.