I think the quality of the industry comes and goes. It probably peaked in the early to mid 20th century. Before that, yellow journalism and muckraking, afterward… well, what we have now, hyper-partisanship, the elevation of opinion writing about the fact finding g side of things… and most annoying to me at least, the absolute self-congratulatory grandstanding. Outlets leaving Twitter in a huff being the latest example of that.
It really is pathetic to see an entire industry fall so far.
Only a few generations and it is completely destroyed. Goes to show how quickly humanity can lose something it has built for centuries.
The question is will it ever recover?
Journalists have always been this way.
That isn't entirely true, there was a time when they would keep their own ranks in check and remove anyone who lied or made them look bad.
Journalism used to be a prestigious position, now it is a laughing stock filled with cunts.
I suspect it was always this way and we just never noticed because the internet didn't exist to make it easy to debunk them.
I think the quality of the industry comes and goes. It probably peaked in the early to mid 20th century. Before that, yellow journalism and muckraking, afterward… well, what we have now, hyper-partisanship, the elevation of opinion writing about the fact finding g side of things… and most annoying to me at least, the absolute self-congratulatory grandstanding. Outlets leaving Twitter in a huff being the latest example of that.