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OT: Twitter in Absolute Shambles

There was a time they did actual invesyigative journalism and wrote interesting stories, weren’t just rushing to the camera and X feed as quickly as possible to be the first to say the same thing everyone else is saying.

Develop sources. Give an interesting perspective. Root out corruption. Etc. X didn’t kill journalism, the “journalists” did.

This makes sense @Bill Cosby ! I forgot about the investigative part as well.
 
What exactly does a journalist actually do in an environment where citizens film all the news as it happens (and then give it to the news sites), and people can self report news in X, FB, etc? Oh also, AI can do writing for the few that can't write well.
They act as self important whores for whoever gives them access/talking points. These people never actually break stories or do investigative pieces. They simply say whatever is given to them.

I was around this life but it wasn’t regarding politics. Today’s corporate press are no different than Instagram influencers, really.
 
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This makes sense @Bill Cosby ! I forgot about the investigative part as well.
These places scrapped their long term investigative reporting budget in favor of emotional opinion piece trash and “breaking news.”

In the early 2000s, Craigslist/internet killed newspapers by taking their classified ads budgets. Newspapers/media outlets struggle so much that they got acquired by large media conglomerates who simply use the bylines and TV time to push the agendas of the money backers. It’s a huge conflict of interest in how they report as the public is no longer their actual money source and they simply will say whatever their masters want now.
 
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