Posted by gaizka6 on November 13, 2023, 5:35 pm, in reply to "The media "
Oooooo, I love this one.
In a long list of challenges "we" have, media is right up the top of the list.
Fundamentally, there are no checks and balances left, or precious few.
From ownership to the foot soldiers, there are few genuine attempts to uphold standards (stop laughing at the back) - be they of independence or output.
The response of legacy media to Leveson was catastrophic for us as a public. As was the legacy media response to the new media business models. Although commercially understandable, it has been totally destructive for us lot. I'm not trying to take away from our responsibility as a public here too much, I hope. Because that's a huge, huge challenge too...
Anyway, with just an eye on political media in the UK, think a lot about how our print / TV press (so influential still across politics and government and amongst policymakers) chase across the internet, TMZ-style, to catch those eyeballs baby!
Those outputs are powered by clickbait, marketeer-style content creators masquerading as journalists - Kuenssberg would be a high profile example of this. There's no way she's a journalist in a traditional sense. This applies all over the place, TV, print, online. There's a handful of genuine journalists left, and within mainstream UK political media, virtually extinct
This new environment has been been gamed by sharper minds with less rules to play by: Dominic Cummings has had a diagnosis of political media that IMHO is nailed on, and he and others riff off a playbook that laughs in the face of things like BBC impartiality (a standpoint that has been rendered obsolete by the rise of disinformation and lying that is just endemic in legacy and new media).
It's such a huge raking debate this. Fries my mind.
on November 13, 2023, 5:35 pm, in reply to "