Traditional, legitimate news media is now in a life-or-death battle with fake news that aims to ignore facts in favor of bent and distorted realities. The legitimate news media must present a united, consistent front via a massive outreach campaign to convince the general public, including the fence-sitters who voted for President Trump, that Freedom of the Press is stake which means, also, that democracy in America is being tested to its limits.
The legitimate press can only win back the trust of non-believers through accurate stories while highlighting the difference between real and fake journalism. REAL JOURNALISM INCLUDES: education, experience, research, knowledge of subject matter, oversight by superiors, admitting mistakes and, in some circumstances, being penalized for mistakes.
Radio host Ira Glass, in a Rolling Stone article says alternative news narratives are worrisome.
FROM ROLLING STONE>>>These days, he added, interest in the news has only grown – thanks in large part to the current administration, which has created “the most intense news-consuming period any of us can remember” – though there is no longer just one narrative for viewers and readers to follow. And that, he points out, is worrisome.
“There are new challenges that fact-based journalists face, but it doesn’t have to do with the president,” Glass said of what kinds of difficulties journalists face today. “Over the last 20 years, an entire second media has grown up that runs an alternate narrative to the mainstream media. … Every event goes through two prisms now in a way that it never did before. That’s the hardest thing for those of us in the fact-based media. And that’s enormously difficult to know how to deal with as someone in the mainstream media because the people who believe otherwise aren’t consuming our product.”<<<
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