![]() ![]() (Later got a GED and attended college, although I settled for an Associate's degree) While it's not anything to brag about, I DID take a couple of courses in journalism back in the 70s in high school before I dropped out. "News stories" had gotten to be nothing more than poorly done press releases. I used to read the local paper until I realized the sorry state of today's journalism. The national stuff trickles in via other means, even if I don't deliberately seek it out. When I do read news articles I focus solely on local media. that's a big part of how the modern right-wing machine operates in the US of A, by duping people who let their guard down. ![]() Social media forces us to question everything we read, as opposed to the olden days where trust was a critical factor in keeping a broad enough audience if we don't keep a healthy dose of scepticism at hand, well. It took our existing decline in journalism and made it a thousand times worse by cluttering up everything, and I do mean everything, with opinions, noise, and deliberate misinformation. We have one news company in Hawaii that still conducts what I consider journalism on a national level in the US we have NPR, but that doesn't have nearly the same impact.Īnd don't get me started on social media. We don't have nearly enough time dedicated to people investigating and collating information into real stories, as opposed to the he-said-she-said drivel we get 99% of the time today. I miss journalism as opposed to casual reporting. There’s only one ‘local’ and its anything but. He’d call the reporter sometimes and tell him that his parents wasted their money sending him to college. I remember my father sitting at the table reading and getting mad at op-Ed’s and especially furious about the news articles about his administration. I enjoyed the word games and on Sundays did them all with my sister while my mom cut coupons from the circulars. There was more on college and high school sports as well. Sports were extensively covered, even though there were fewer professional teams. The Newark Star Ledger was filled with comics, far more than the others. The NY Daily News had a liberal view, The Post was very critical and seemed conservative, The Daily Mirror was more neutral, bland, and The NY Times was great for world and national news.Įven the comics among all those papers were different. I devoured them, and very early realized that they all reported differently, much differently. My father was a mayor and loved all levels of politics so we had three area daily newspapers delivered to the house and he brought four home from NYC every night. ![]()
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