Plus with everyone having a video camera on their phone and the ability to broadcast vs YouTube & other free video sharing sites, the barrier to entry became much smaller & it was exposed just how not elite the "real" journalists are.
I remember a long time ago hearing a radio program about ethics in news, a panel run by a few of the more significant reporters in the area. A guy mentioned an example of a woman who wrote a story about some issue about a giraffe at a zoo, then she signed a petition about whatever the issue was, then did another story a few days later. He went on to say that he considered even this to be going too far to ethically continue reporting on the story- that she had become personally involved in the story, and was now too compromised to continue. Just by signing a petition about some incredibly inconsequential puff piece.
I sometimes think back to that. The equivalent here would be if she had sex with the giraffe and had a history of saying the people running the zoo were basically responsible for the downfall of civilization and deserved to be put in a tank with sharks, and everyone acts like that's fine reporting.
It died back in the 1960s. It was in the same car crash that killed the last of the sane Democrats:
https://www.larryelder.com/column/comparing-republicans-to-nazis-who-started-it/
http://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/former-wapo-legend-carl-bernstein-inadvertently-explains-trumps-rise/
As the internet blossomed their traditional sources of funding dried up and they had to take other sources of funding with an agenda attached.
Plus with everyone having a video camera on their phone and the ability to broadcast vs YouTube & other free video sharing sites, the barrier to entry became much smaller & it was exposed just how not elite the "real" journalists are.
I remember a long time ago hearing a radio program about ethics in news, a panel run by a few of the more significant reporters in the area. A guy mentioned an example of a woman who wrote a story about some issue about a giraffe at a zoo, then she signed a petition about whatever the issue was, then did another story a few days later. He went on to say that he considered even this to be going too far to ethically continue reporting on the story- that she had become personally involved in the story, and was now too compromised to continue. Just by signing a petition about some incredibly inconsequential puff piece.
I sometimes think back to that. The equivalent here would be if she had sex with the giraffe and had a history of saying the people running the zoo were basically responsible for the downfall of civilization and deserved to be put in a tank with sharks, and everyone acts like that's fine reporting.