Will Bunch expresses what I’ve been thinking since Trump was elected. American democracy is under attack from within. The fascists who yearn for an authoritarian government in the media are promoting it, and the media who supposedly don’t support it fail to recognize it. They are busy trying to follow the political playbook of the 20th century.

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    I guess you just accept that no journalist can be bothered to ‘investigate’ who blew up those pipelines because ‘funding has dried up’ making it ‘impossible’ for them to ask questions?

    This seems like something any real journalist would love to sink their teeth into, and discover the truth of. Why haven’t any of them? Because they don’t have funding?

    Bleh, I don’t buy it. Not one bit. That’s an excuse.

    And tweets aren’t facts, they are statements. If a journalist wants to ‘report’ on a statement made on Twitter they still need to at least go an interview the person who made the tweet, then interview people around that person, and interview people who refute whatever statement is made in the tweet.

    Like, you know …. Follow up.

    But what it sounds like you’re saying is ‘no one has enough funding to do anything more than sit at home and remotely scroll Twitter looking for stuff to write their opinions about’.

    I’m sorry, but I demand much more than that from the media.

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      You can’t draw blood from a stone, dude. Why aren’t YOU out there investigating it? I think you need to get on a plane right now. Take a few months off work and get on it using your own savings to do it. I’m now demanding that much more from you.

      • @Mudface
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        01 year ago

        I’m not a journalist

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          And how does one end up part of your slave caste of journalists, where you’re allowed to demand they sacrifice themselves and work without pay? Just curious since like you, I don’t want to accidentally end up one.

          Or will you go ahead and hire one yourself to do that investigation? Just a few tens of thousands of dollars will probably support a few months of the work you demand.

          • @Mudface
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            -21 year ago

            What are you talking about?

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              Don’t be disingenuous. You’re out here DEMANDING that journalists should still be out there on investigation beats even if there’s no way to earn a living doing it, but aren’t willing to do anything yourself other than complain about how lazy and biased they are.

              • @Mudface
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                01 year ago

                Are you suggesting that no one would read an actual, real, investigative journalism piece?

                That’s what it sounds like you’re saying

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                  Prepared by whom?

                  If no one can get paid a living wage to do it, it won’t get done. You’re the one saying that a lack of funding for journalists is no excuse and that you DEMAND they go out there and do the work even if there’s no funding.

                  If you’re so sure there is a good business model in what you want, go fucking do it.

                  • @Mudface
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                    01 year ago

                    Any story like ‘who blew up the pipelines’ would be the biggest story in the country.

                    Anyone who writes that story will get fucking paid

                    That’s how this stuff works.