Posted on Jul 6, 2017
The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards
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About as level-headed an editorial as you'll likely see these days:
"I urge you to support the media you like. As the great writer and thinker Midge Decter once put it, “You have to join the side you’re on.” It’s no secret that newspapers and magazines are losing readers and money and shedding staff. Some of them are good newspapers. Some of them are good magazines. There are also many wonderful, thoughtful, small publications and websites that exist on a shoestring. Don’t let them die. Subscribe or contribute to those you enjoy. Give subscriptions to friends. Put your money where your heart and mind are. An expanded media landscape that better reflects the diversity of public preferences would, in time, help create a more level political and cultural arena. That would be a great thing. So again I urge you: join the side you’re on."
"I urge you to support the media you like. As the great writer and thinker Midge Decter once put it, “You have to join the side you’re on.” It’s no secret that newspapers and magazines are losing readers and money and shedding staff. Some of them are good newspapers. Some of them are good magazines. There are also many wonderful, thoughtful, small publications and websites that exist on a shoestring. Don’t let them die. Subscribe or contribute to those you enjoy. Give subscriptions to friends. Put your money where your heart and mind are. An expanded media landscape that better reflects the diversity of public preferences would, in time, help create a more level political and cultural arena. That would be a great thing. So again I urge you: join the side you’re on."
The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards
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Election 2016
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My two cents, Journalistic standards have been on a slow decline since the publication of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Those two events changed news gathering from objective to confrontational. Opinionated cable TV channels has made the race for the gutter worse between news organizations for better ratings (and with those go higher advertising rates). Only way to fix this is to make or find a way for TV to become far less dependent on advertising and much more dependent on quality of the content or reporting. I am not sure how we shift it from one to the other but the shift needs to happen. In my opinion.
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LTC Stephen B.
That is actually one of the points the author made - every new journalist wants to make themselves famous by taking down another high-profile Republican.
The way to shift it is for viewers to reward quality reporting (when and if it can be found) by watching/subscribing/sharing. Of course, those that follow the Statist view will be doing the same, but then again, they always have.
The way to shift it is for viewers to reward quality reporting (when and if it can be found) by watching/subscribing/sharing. Of course, those that follow the Statist view will be doing the same, but then again, they always have.
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Saw CPT Jack Durish's post of the same article predating mine pop up in the "similar discussions" window - you can follow that discussion here:
https://www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/the-2016-election-and-the-demise-of-journalistic-standards
https://www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/the-2016-election-and-the-demise-of-journalistic-standards
The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards | RallyPoint
Please don't dismiss this without reading simply because of the source. It is a very well written and thought out piece that ends with a very important question: "Can the American [news] media be fixed?" As the author correctly observes "The 2016 election was the media's Humpty Dumpty moment. It fell off the wall, shattered into a million pieces, and can't be put back together again." Still there is hope. It will take decades for the...
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