Wrong about what? Seriously. I asked a question. I didn't create a premise. I asked a question and you assumed I was an idiot. Wrong about what?
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Retired newsroom journalist here, now freelancing and getting intimately acquainted with larger picture. I think you mean to address the dif over time between falsehood degree and audience size, rather than “nuance.” Examining their whole history, newspapers have been reliably monstrous. But …
aug 5, 2025, 1:33 am • 2 0 • view
… you’re right in saying there have been periods of credible journalism holding sway in the mainstream. If your question is Why didn’t everyone lie all the time, when they could have? I’d say answer is …
aug 5, 2025, 1:34 am • 3 0 • view
… a blend: collective sense of “truth” b/c most Americans read/watched same few somewhat regulated sources; financial support (incl. legal protection) of reporters/outlets seeking that; market of (as mentioned) relatively few and notably un-silo’d sources.
aug 5, 2025, 1:35 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you. Understandable but the shared sense of "truth" was the same as it was with Hearst, no? And pouring lies into the collective was profitable. So why did honesty or attempted honest journalism anyway, ever take hold at any point? Just enough, but not too many, journalistic sources?
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No.
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In my lifetime, perhaps because of Vietnam. It is late and I am drawing a blank. I'm thinking in terms of TV rather than print. Bill Moyers is my absolute hero. Tom Brokaw. I know there are more.
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