YouTube is full of video clips and still pictures that are obviously fake. I mean, it couldn’t more obvious if you stamped them, “Guaranteed genuine fake.”
“But I seen it on YouTube!” And then they go out and vote. That’s “our democracy.”
It wouldn’t worry me so much, only we do have the costliest and most intrusive “education” system in world history… and it’d be nice if we got something out of it.
Here it is! The Newswithviews column you’ve been waiting for. Or not.
The question is, just how bad can “journalism” get? I’ve been a reporter and an editor–back when it was a hard job, hard work, and we took pride in doing it right. Now it’s just cheerleading for assorted Far Left Crazy projects, from establishing transgenderism to putting doddering Joe Biden in the White House. If it’s bad for America, the noozies are all for it.
It’s embarrassing to see what my former profession has done to itself.
Gee! They’ve thought of another way to bring down the quality of what we laughingly call “journalism.”
The Sacramento Bee News Guild is up in arms about their new CEO’s plan to tie journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get (https://mobile.twitter.com/SacBeeGuild/status/1318212995785224192). This, says the guild, “encourages controversy and quantity over clarity and quality.” Ya think? It’ll teach reporters to create “click bait,” says the guild, and “cheapens our work.”
Yeah, probably.
As it is, America’s journalism is plumbing hitherto unguessed-at depths of media bias, sensationalism, sloppy research, no research, and phony-baloney made-up research–all in the service of getting Democrats elected to turn our country into a socialist joke. You wouldn’t have thought it could get any worse: but fake news is a growth industry.
At least Walter Cronkite and Co. pretended to have ethics. Today’s noozies don’t even try. They’re in the bag for wokeness and they don’t care who knows it.
We used to make fun of zany tabloid headlines like “Mad Dentist Rips Out Patient’s Tongue” and “Girl Too Ugly to Go to School.” Betcha they would’ve gotten a lot of clicks, though, if clicks had existed back then.
Guys, you brought this on yourselves.
And I don’t feel your pain.
Somebody said I might get more readership if I wrote catchier headlines, so let’s see if that works. Any headline with nudists in it ought to inspire curiosity.
Meanwhile, every day I get emails from alleged “conservative” organizations with headlines like “See how Trump put Pelosi out of business for good!” And then you open the email and it’s an ad for socks or something.
Then again, I never went to journalism school, so maybe there are compelling reasons for doing this that I just never heard of.