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  • Editors in The New York Post's newsroom

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 19 09:28:40 2022
    Editors in The New York Post's newsroom now regularly hand down
    anti-Trump story assignments and the editor in chief gets involved to
    make sure the tone is right, sources told me

    https://twitter.com/katie_robertson/status/1593679230814097409

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Nov 20 14:57:39 2022
    On 2022-11-19, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    Editors in The New York Post's newsroom now regularly hand down
    anti-Trump story assignments and the editor in chief gets involved to
    make sure the tone is right, sources told me

    https://twitter.com/katie_robertson/status/1593679230814097409

    Yuk. I'm not a huge fan of the Post, but I'm even more loathe to be
    shown so plainly, that modern journalists do nothing more than expouse
    the political views of their corporate sponsors. Double yuk.

    Was no fan of Trump, but I give him credit for opening my eyes to this phenomenon and my own naivete about the matter. First I saw it in Fox
    etc. but then I began to see it everywhere. No I can't unsee it.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Sun Nov 20 10:10:31 2022
    On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:57:39 +0000, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    that modern journalists do nothing more than expouse
    the political views of their corporate sponsors.

    Back in the days of Cable TV (No HBO, no Cable Channels, just TV
    channels), TV stations and newspapers carried the political news,
    mostly as politicians told them.

    Pentagon papers and Watergate represented the elites dirty laundry,
    but by and large, most of this dirty laundry was kept in the closet,
    out of sight from the public.

    Yellow journalism (tabloid journalism) has been around, but I suspect
    in recent thirty/forty years, it has attracted more clueless people.

    "Modern journalism" is still valid, and it is independent of political
    "tabloid journalism," but people have to seek it out.

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