@Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:
@Aqua-Letifer said in How NPR lost America's trust:
@Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:
@Aqua-Letifer said in How NPR lost America's trust:
Well there's no thread police, people can and always do contribute where and how they want.
You know what else I’ve never done? Hacked a murdered girls phone or taken sleazy photos of celebrities on the beach.
So morally I’m ahead, profession wise.
Don't be peacockin' just yet. Atrocity is one of the last few distribution networks left that we have yet to democratize. Technology's going to make those things a lot more accessible!
Also, while not a journalist I did work as an intern at the BBC, which is what NPR would be if it could. Whilst very laudable I found them to be a little sanctimonious if I’m honest. They offered me a tech job but I couldn’t face the idea. Way too much sitting around and pandering to artistic types who treated the techs like second class citizens.
Well, it's the beeb. They're monolithic AF.
When I worked as a journalist, the hours were beyond shit and the pay was just enough not to have to owe anybody money. But what we did actually mattered. Otherwise no sane person would ever agree to do it.
Yeah, a lot of 'em are holier-than-thou about their profession. But just about everyone who's holier-than-thou about journalists has never worked as one and I don't find that at all surprising.
I also don't think we're better off without them. Just about every single complaint or criticism aimed at journalists today aren't actually aimed at journalists. They're aimed at content creators and propagandists because the critics don't know the difference.