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JP calls out AJC for bad journalism it is
One the best takes on the AJC and their click driven brand of "journalism" I have seen so far.
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Link (if allowed)? Never mind, I see the link now - thanks.
Good on JP. At first I thought it meant Jefferson Pilot (RIP).
Excellent comments on the current state of journalism and mass media. I hope everyone watches all 19 minutes of this clip. This applies not just to UGA and the AJC....this is pretty much how all media works. Shocking headlines to cause an agenda-driven emotional response knowing the huge majority of people won't actually read or watch the whole article. Low-information voters. Accusations and inuendo are more important and impactful than facts.
We get what we pay for. Don’t pay for journalism wind up with bad journalism.
Attention span deterioration hasn't helped, either.
Edward R. Murrow. He may have been the first "click bait" tv journalist. Except the click was the sound of the channel changing knob. I'm afraid we have found the problem, and it's us.
Those were the days. Get up from your comfy seat and change to one of the other two available channels by turning a knob. Oh, my...
You were living the high life, I only had 2 channels and 1 was ga public tv back when they actually had some kind of classes being broadcast.
Because newspapers tried to be more like tv instead of being newspapers.
Yeah, I am sure there is culpability all around. I can't say whether it was the media reeacting to the market or the market reacting to the shifts in media, but we are firmly in the realm now of sound bites and quick takes over in depth reporting and consumers reading entire articles with comprehension.
That is partially true for sure. Not an expert in the Journalism area but I have read in years recently that a lot of journalism is outsourced. I think this may be why you see so many spelling errors and so forth in so many articles put out by MSN, and the other web outlets.
This particular writer, Alan Judd, seems hell bent on combining some facts with speculative opinion and creative headlining. Then his articles get kicked to 5-10 other outlets and it starts a chain of negative 'reporting.' Especially in the case of Jamal Jarrett. I don't think anyone is defending the actions of JJ but since the charges were dropped could the AJC find itself in a defamation lawsuit for throwing this kid under the bus with innuendo? Also, how do lump in speeding tickets with assaults on women?
I guess that one person might conclude that if Mr. Judd and the AJC were to sensationalize their negative reporting by including opinions and speculation what else are they exaggerating in their other articles?
To me at this point it feels like the AJC 'jumped the shark' on this and they are doing more damage to their own credibility then to Georgia. I would also say sites like Clutchpoints and others are also just turning Georgia readers off with regurgitating this largely opinion piece stuff. Thoughts?
This is the main reason people refuse to pay for news any more. It's become unreliable junk. Nothing is trustworthy any more. You have to read about 4-5 different sources and read between the lines to get an idea of what's really going on.
I think it all goes back to the advent of 24/7 news. You have to fill the space with something. The world really isn't all that exciting to need round the clock coverage.
The internet has changed the way we read. Our brains now don't read things like it used to. We skim the way you do on web pages.
Educators will tell you the biggest problem they have giving kids test is they just skim the questions.
We still have good media here. It just requires reading. So people aren't going to do it. They want Facebook meme's Twitter posts, youtube videos, or headlines they can skim.
I get my news from Apple News which aggregates things for me to read. Sources would include.
WSJ, The New Yorker, CNBC, Barron's. and several others.
News today isn't unreliable junk. It's just requires effort or yes payment to get it.
American's are not going to put in the effort when a **** Facebook meme already confirms what they want to believe anyway.
I think it all goes back to the advent of 24/7 news. You have to fill the space with something. The world really isn't all that exciting to need round the clock coverage.
The real problem there is 24/7 news became 24/7 opinion.
I used to love Headline News. They would just play the top stories of the day with little or no commentary. An earthquake in Turkey.....A major bill passed Congress......A new leader was elected in Japan.....etc. It repeated every 10 minutes or so. It was great. No opinion. Just factual reports of what happened.
That isn't what we get from 24/7 news. It's more like a British tabloid these days. Total garbage.
I agree with everything you said, but I'll disagree that the news is mostly unreliable junk. I can cite countless major news outlets that knowingly reported outright lies and falsehoods or slanted the details so much that consumers are lead astray. If I have to go and cross-reference multiple sources, each reporting the same story with completely different angles....that is a problem. In theory, honest news articles should be the same no matter what network or paper publishes it.
In theory, honest news articles should be the same no matter what network or paper publishes it.
Well I hate to break it to you. But its never been that way.
William Randolph Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of his day.
You give me the pictures ill give you your war.
But yeah there is good news out there. You just have to be selective about your sources.
The WSJ for example is still an excellent source. As is the NYT. One conservative. The other liberal. So yeah you get that on their editorial pages.
But the reporting they both do is top notch typically.
"One Conservative, one Liberal." Now that wouldn't lead to any editoralizing at all.
Seriously though, is there a decent news source that doesn’t lean left or right?
Associated Press. Reuters. InfoWars.
Of course it does. But they do strive to keep it out of the straight reporting.
Seriously though, is there a decent news source that doesn’t lean left or right?
No. Never has been either. We all act on biases even sometimes unconsciously. Journalists are no different. But again some like the WSJ do try and keep it straight with their reporting. Opinions are reserved for the editorial pages.