Anyone reasonably trained knows this. But for reporters in their 20s, they’ve never seen or heard of anything else.
Journalism as a profession has been mercilessly crushed this entire century (at least) and we are all (save the 1%, perhaps) the poorer for it. There’s a reason it was considered one of the fundamentals of a functioning democracy.
What the article describes isn’t even reporting, let alone journalism, it’s a form of marketing.
The world needs more action like the people of Quebec did to the suddenly former ceo of Air Canada.
The pilots were French, the jet flying from Montreal. The least that fucker could have done is have someone who knows French give the apology.
Data centers IN SPACE!
Acritically repeated by every news source.
Modern journalism is PR for the rich.
I see some angry person. The good type of angry — directing his anger at the right things.
To be clear: Bode is not criticising the fact that journalists quote what CEOs say. He’s criticising the fact they do it and call it a day, as if saying “trust the CEO”.
It goes without saying that CEOs are really loud when saying what they want the sucker (you) to believe. So if that’s all you want, you need no journalist. A journalist is only useful if you want to know the factual reality; but for that they need to contextualise and challenge the claims, not just parrot them.
I’d end with some noble call for the U.S. media industry to do better, but it’s abundantly clear they don’t want to.
If it’s any consolation it isn’t just the United-Statian media.
