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Edwird -> RE: Germany Teaching Refugees Correct Sex Etiquette (6/8/2016 3:55:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: blnymph
I would like the idea of some future webpage describing and teaching "journalists" some basic skills:
research ...
facts checking ...
(multi-lingual of course)
Part of the reason that less information is given about an issue is because everything now is all about 'click bait.'
The headlines were just as, if not more, salacious back in the good old days, but they at least had to explain something of consequence in the article.
I saw the headline "Supreme court deadlocked" and had to read through six different articles that commented only on the issue of there being an equal amount of Democrat and Republican appointees, after justice Scalia died. And what the president and congress were supposed to do about it.
The seventh article I came upon in the search actually found their way to explaining the case itself.
This is after the one I found, but close enough:
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/273895-supreme-court-issues-first-4-4-tie-since-scalias-death
It's always been this way, for the most part, but having a headline to get people "riled!" has always sold the papers, which sells advertising.
It's not so much that they are incapable of fact checking, it's just that it's not as necessary to the same ultimate purpose that's been there all along. Knowing that there's an army of people swarming the internet looking for a reason to get "PISSED OFF!," their job is a lot easier nowadays.
Now, the real job is to connect what people read in the media to what they buy from Amazon or whatever store, in the US. Thank you Google. And 'smart phones,' and ...
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