Anonymous #1 2w

How would that work?

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Anonymous #3 2w

The concept of it still exists. It’s not being funded on the scale it used to. The Post broke watergate, look at them over the past year.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I think it’s more funded. It’s just not being funded by the top. There’s tons of good investigative journalists on social platforms that make a good amount of money from YouTube and patreon

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Anonymous #3 2w

Well that’s not the same thing, is it? There are practices and structure to good journalism that’s taught at well respected programs. Those are very separate from randos on the internet.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I really hate this stigma. So the only good new source is the ones paid by big corporate interests that obviously have an agenda? You don’t know these people’s backgrounds, do you? Many of the people I watch have political science degrees & other credentials. All because they’re independent and post to YouTube or patreon does not make them a bad journalist. I’d argue the ones that are working for the corporations are actually worse because they choose to work for people that can censor them

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Anonymous #3 2w

Journalists with a degree in journalism working with other journalists at institutions that have earned credibility over decades and centuries create higher quality work, yes. That credibility doesn’t just come from size, and it can be lost if they go against what got them there (just look at CBS and WaPo)

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Anonymous #2 2w

Any outlet worth its salt does have a firewall between the business side and the journalism side, and when that erodes, they very much do lose their credibility.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I understand what you mean, but in all honesty many careers do not require a degree. If these guys can gain a following and make money simply due to donations I’d think they’re still a great journalist. Anyways I prefer them over big media, big media has agendas and those credited journalists play a role in it

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Anonymous #3 2w

And this type of take is exactly why our media environment is so unhealthy right now

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Anonymous #2 2w

Quit projecting brother 😭

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Anonymous #3 2w

Projecting what exactly?

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Anonymous #2 2w

Ur insulting me because of where I choose to get my media

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Anonymous #3 2w

I’m not insulting you, I’m saying that a healthy media environment is built out of institutions that build their credibility.

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Anonymous #5 2w

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s Watergate, Seymour Hersh’s My Lai exposure, the Pentagon Papers, the list goes on.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I mean that journalists and the press have ALWAYS just regurgitated sh!t from the WH. Media has censored and hidden information so it would go along with what the administration was saying, this is 100% not new. obviously there are outliers

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Anonymous #2 2w

More projecting

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Anonymous #3 2w

Genuinely what is that projecting?

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