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Originally Posted by riseagainstrocks
I fundamentally disagree with his media feud being a good thing. He's questioning the existence of journalistic integrity when facts/narratives don't align with his own. It's not only stupid, it's actively dangerous. CNN, for all its flaws, publishes retractions. Brietbart and its ideological kin, do not. Journalistic institutions are like every other institution, full of problems, but there for a reason. The resourcing, the internal and external accountability, the prestige gained, and lost, through thorough or shoddy reporting - these are all lacking in the new world of alt-right "journalism".
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Definitely. If there's anything that's dictatorial about Trump, it's branding everything negative about him as fake.
And though the alt-right specifically rose recently, there's just as much yellow journalism on the left RE: Buzzfeed, Gawker (they play both sides), etc.
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So I'm less positive that we're seeing or approaching a glorious rebirth of truth and media ethics.
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I don't see a return to form coming for a while, at least not for the MSM. The truth doesn't sell nearly as much as pandering directly to your market. It's a lot easier to make a title that ignores the nuance of a situation by proclaiming it to be an imminent threat to all that exists and will ever exist, and it's a lot easier to get scared people to read hyped up headlines. It's all so ****ed.
It's a shame that the honest and unbiased sources of the alternative media are drowned out by fearmongerers and idiots.