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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
It is really important that it's clear when a piece is reporting and when a piece is an opinion column. In traditional media, this was always very important and something that was upheld.
But in the world of social media and the decline in actual journalism, it's become very blurry, to everyone's decrement.
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This.
The news is just supposed to be the news. Here's what happened, now you're free process that information however you'd like.
Then along came 24hr news channels, and program directors trying to find way to get more eyes for more commercials during more timeslots. Turns out people like drama, and people like reality TV... soooo let's combine the news (reality) with drama (here's a very dramatic discussion panel about the news we just showed you).
So now we have multiple generations who aren't just being told what's happening, they're also being told what to think/feel about it and how to process/react to it.
Shifting from Walter Cronkite to Tucker Carlson made networks a lot more money from advertisers, but it's not like the world is better from it.