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One thing different about the days of the old newspaper days was that the reporters job required them to put effort into digging around to try to find info that no one else knew so they could report it first. A reporter that could do that was highly prized. Whistleblowers were highly prized.
Today’s mainstream reporters all go to daily meetings and/or receive their approved stories through their phones or other electronic means. They also find out what information they are not allowed to expose and what info from other sources they have to counter. There are still some news outlets that do that old style of reporting and have reporters that actively dig around to find info and truths that no one else is reporting on but the public is encouraged to label them as quacks and conspiracy theorists by the type of reporters that attend those daily meetings that I described earlier.
The only reliable place to find the truth is from politicians and politically funded sources said no one in a free country ever.
Now as far as phones are concerned they certainly have changed society. I think one of the major impacts is that kids today are never bored and looking for something to do. If they ever have a moment without some sort of stimulation they immediately take out their phone. My kids often show me something that someone else has done that is really neat. I try to explain to them that it is really neat to see those neat ideas but they do need to realize that when they are looking at other people’s neat ideas they are taking time away from being able to do any of those neat things themselves. Social media platforms have sure figured out how to keep people addicted. Including NAT. Lol
You are quite the expert. So how many years have you worked as a journalist?
Nah. I’m not an expert nor am I a journalist. I am just reporting what actual journalists that have retired or left the field due to the changes have reported. I’m curious how you deduced that I am a journalist from what I wrote? I am also curious if you disagree with the information I am relaying here and on your own personal experience in that industry. Do tell.
I deduced that you must be a journalist with a deep understanding of the business since your anecdotal evidence is contrary to my high school classmate who retired after 35 years with a large city newspaper, ie. you must have seniority. For instance he says in the "good ole days" you were much more limited politically on what you could and could not report compared to today contrary to your assertion. And if you think today's news is fake compared to the good ole days, he says put that to rest. What can be researched on the internet in 10 minutes would take ten investigators two weeks minimum back in the day and it would potentially be just as if not more tainted. Everyone has access and will call you out
(sort of what you think you attempt to do
).
He says that they had a lot more latitude in the good ole days to play loose with facts because no one could prove you wrong and if they could it wasn't worth the immense time it would take to do so. No one had a fraction of the information available today. Seems logical if not "undeniable". Again you work so hard at trying to appear intelligent but if you would just apply some common sense in your analysis. Good luck.
Wow! I had written a response pointing out several issues with your understanding before erasing it because this one point alone highlights the exceptionally poor quality of your thought processes.
You wrote:
For instance he says in the "good ole days" you were much more limited politically on what you could and could not report compared to today contrary to your assertion.
If you believe your buddy when he said that you are even more lost than I thought! Lol.
There always have been a few of the proverbial “used car salesmen” version of reporters. Thankfully, most of the old reporters held themselves to a higher standard even before the public could scrutinize them so easily.
He laughed and said there is no way you can be that naive. I disagreed.
No phones with pic attached finally
