Media: Young journalists think they should be “Activists”
New journalists think facts and objectivity are so last century; instead, should be promoting their opinions as to what is right and wrong.
New journalists think facts and objectivity are so last century; instead, should be promoting their opinions as to what is right and wrong.
Guy on Twitter asked Google, “Is <insert topic> racist?” – and according to the Google search results essentially everything is racist including The list just goes on and on – and there are similar lists possible for asking “Is Y sexist?”
Reuters says a pro-Palestine demonstrator is detained by the police. But they had it backwards – he’s an Israeli Arab and the police were protecting him from protesters. However, this individual may have a reputation for appearing at protests engaged in various behaviors per the comments to his original X post. Twitter Reuters has now changed the caption, but without posting a correction notice:
What expertise does the public have to form this opinion? Almost solely what the media tells them.
Funny – fact checker Snopes said in the past that a Covid lab origin was a conspiracy theory, then one of their fact checkers denies they ever said that.