This is a great article, but I’ve come to believe that HN commenters are utterly incapable of appreciating how absolutely essential journalism is, and in fact how many great journalists there still are writing today. When I read the kind of things people here tend to say about “the media”, I can’t identify with it at all. Good journalists are the conscience of our nation, and have been been stepping up to the job admirably in recent years, when the nation has lost its ethical center.
Journalistic integrity comes and goes. The Washington Post seemed like a beacon of truthfulness when Trump attacked the free press and they adopted the slogan “Democracy dies in darkness.” Recently they have forgone truthfulness in favor of “truthiness”. Their hypocrisy on fact-checking Sanders and the Times’ calling him “Other” when he was in the lead were very telling.
Journalists with corporate sponsors are just advertisers by another name.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] threadJournalists with corporate sponsors are just advertisers by another name.