"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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.
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.