Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Tousi TV"
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You're hearing what was already playing in your head. She actually said People used to take our word for things and no longer do. She was speaking generally, but as far as generalities go hers were quite accurate. She actually seemed realistic and a bit humbled.
And don't get me wrong: I firmly believe that the direction the mainstream media has taken in the past 10 to 20 years — a direction that's been power-serving and self-serving at the same time, at the expense of the truth and the interests of nearly everyone outside of the elites — has been disastrous and morally contemptible, often morally criminal. (At times criminal in the full legal sense, for that matter.)
But I do not hesitate to add that, having said all that, the media which have rushed in to fill the trust vacuum left behind by the corporate and state media is by and large no better and often worse. It is rarely much better at resisting the urge to bias and ordinarily makes no attempt at all.
Indeed most such outlets practically brag that pure bias to be the best or only avenue to truth, accuracy and fairness. They're filled with rigid ideologues, lack of brainpower, poor writing, poor editing, poor trains of thought and laughable amateurism.
Most of its content campaigns openly for ill-thought-out solutions in line with some orthodoxy, a lust for revanchism, or just whatever popped into their heads while in thrall to strong emotion. All of that may be fine up to a point in certain contexts and it doesn't necessarily bother me that it's published, but it isn't journalism and journalism is what we need.
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