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Why are journalists hated?

>> No.13800705

>>13800671
Journalists will mis-represent facts or straight up lie to create a more shocking headline. They get more traffic for posting controversial bait than they do for posting respectable articles. Media corporations have agendas and are rarely ever impartial.

>> No.13800731 [DELETED] 

>>13800671
Because a lot of them do a bad job, if not a pointless one. They'll write what're essentially big internet comments, but see them as so fucking important that they have publish them on giant media platforms. It perpetuates this obnoxious pundit/zinger culture we have, adds a bunch of fluff for me to sift through, while being all around booring. This doesn't describe all articles, but it's articles of this type that cause people to lose faith in journalism as a whole. Any further sabotage to the field is a product of the weak point these mistakes have created.

>> No.13800737

>>13800671
Hegel and Marx were both journalists

>> No.13800740

>>13800671
They’re untrustworthy agents of disinformation

>> No.13800742

Because a lot of them do a bad job, if not a pointless one. They'll write what're essentially big internet comments, but see them as so fucking important that they have to publish them on giant media platforms. It perpetuates this obnoxious pundit/zinger culture we have, adds a bunch of fluff for me to sift through, while being all around boring. This doesn't describe all articles, but it's articles of this type that cause people to lose faith in journalism as a whole. Any further sabotage to the field is a product of the weak point these mistakes have created.

>> No.13800770

Because most of them are partisan hacks with less integrity than the cockroaches that live underneath your refrigerator

>> No.13800792

I don't hate journalists, but I don't hate vermin either, and I still put out traps for rats.

>> No.13801041

>>13800671
In short, its a very vapid form of literature.

>> No.13801042

>>13800671
Journalism is writing for the noncreative.

>> No.13801057

Journalists are just failed authors

>> No.13801685

>>13800671
because 4chan is full of white supremacists who hate truth, democracy and basic human decency to the point of swallowing wholesale russian enemy propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjfg8YlKHc

>> No.13801700

They've become organs of ideological dissimulation. They seek out stories that support their agenda.
I knew one such "journalist" personally and she was the most self-righteous, opinionated hack I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. Absolutely no journalistic standards whatsoever.

>> No.13801710

>>13801685
this. journalists are america's last line of defense against fascism

>> No.13801724

>>13801685
>>13801710
Imagine actually being this fucking naive
Lol

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13801737

Read pic related. Journalism has destroyed the public sphere and meaningful political participation in general.

>> No.13801750

>>13801700
This is the true answer, journalism is currently a disgrace to itself.

>> No.13801781

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism

Basically, narrative focus eclipsed objectivity. Combine that with deregulation of networks and removal of political content restrictions and you have a primetime shitshow recipe

>> No.13801792

>>13800792
Cannot be more based than this

>> No.13801805

Because they are the lowest life-form known to man. They are worse than parasites.

>> No.13801834

>>13800740
Well put

>> No.13801849

I don't hate them, but I recognize that they're usually chomping at the bit to spin something into a dramatic headline. Some journalists do their job, but most that any of us will come into contact with are both not strong writers and also tend to be shoving an agenda now-a-days. Their audience is largely people who aren't willing to research stuff for themselves, which should tell you a lot.

>> No.13801934

>>13800671
Because they don't even bother pretending to be impartial anymore.

>> No.13802033

>>13801724
falling for obvious bait