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Originally Posted by rubicon
Looking at the bigger picture if you consider how unethical or totally partisan many of the national journalist are it is easy to understand how easy it is for a reporter in a smaller setting to violate every ethical principle .
In fact there seems to be only a few avenues of honest to goodness journalistic investigation and reporting.
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I was discussing this very subject with a friend at lunch yesterday. It does seem as if journalism has degraded to infotainment. There was "breaking news" this past week about an active shooter at Fort Lee, Virginia and the base was put on lock down. Turns out a female soldier had committed suicide.
Unfortunately, when vehicles (newspapers, radio, television, internet) for news rely on ratings/money to push their priorities, integrity, fact finding and truth will give way to getting the next big story out there, whether it is factual or not.
And I'm betting the same concerns about the news were raised in the 1700's and the 1800's and the 1900's. I try to be discerning about the news I see, but sometimes the thread of truth is very hard to find.