07-09-2016, 05:09 PM
Martin White Wrote:There are two things that, in my opinion, contribute to the lack of journalistic integrity that you describe:
1. More and more media outlets are being owned by fewer and fewer people, including the buying up (and smothering) of smaller "upstart" publications.
2. The fact that online journalism is so easy. Every asshole with a keyboard can express their opinion on anything, and they often do. It becomes impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff, and there is no editorial standards behind most of what's published. Even if a well written piece is presented, it's hidden among the mediocrity and disinformation.
In the latter part of the article, what really surprised me was the lack of any integrity in the online community. Like TPM, Daily Kos, Huffpo etc. It was like they did not want to tell the truth, they really wanted to be the new MSM, except online. And in some areas, they even cooperated with the NY Times. Just link to that article I wrote about them at the end when I went up against Jane Hamsher. These online journals even practice censorship, which I think everyone knows about.
That is why I wanted to show that there really was a journal at one time that did try and tell the truth about events like the JFK case. And it worked! And it was not a nutty Alex Jones operation. It was real journalism, well written and well documented.