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FactsAreUseless posted:If good reporting isn't commercially viable, but can be sustained through private donations, doesn't that just mean that journalism becomes a specialty product for a small audience, ignored by society at large? Given that good reporting has pretty obvious benefits to society, even if you can survive on small non-profits how do you actually build a meaningful audience? I think the only way forward is to view journalism as a fundamental public good that serves the interest of maintaining a well-informed electorate and have state-sponsored media like the BBC and, like the BBC, there need to be charters, provisions and safe-guards that both ensure quality of reporting and prevent such media from just becoming a mouthpiece for the regime that holds the purse-strings.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:What is journalism and why should we care? Because yellow journalism is alive and well, and thrives even moreso in an environment where fact-checking and curation are not valued. In the modern world there is simply too much information and too many world events for an individual to sift through on their own in order to determine what is salient, let alone evaluate for truth and bias. The tendency of social media to latch onto and spread yellow journalism is a "failure of the crowd" that IMO self-evidently states the case for the profession of journalism in the internet age.
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Waffles Inc. posted:Ok what do you suggest?
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