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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf
I would qualify, though, that journalists — American journalists, especially — would do a lot better by dropping all pretence of being "champions of free speech and democracy". That's self-deception at best, and an outright lie at worst. We like to think of ourselves as storytellers but, more often than not, we're really no better than glorified gossipmongers. Once we're clear about this, that we are ultimately part of a business, there would be a lot less hand-wringing about the imminent demise of the "Fourth Estate" and more focus on what really needs to be done to save the industry and the profession.
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My thinking is that one big problem in Journalism right now is that there a lot of what I would call "armchair" journalists, who don't do any original research themselves and just repeat what others have said. Newspapers need to do more of their own information gathering and fact checking, otherwise they're no better then news aggregators .