The news rooms are dying out. The journalism jobs are disappearing.
The interesting question is what will replace what we now call "journalism", and how it will work.
Interesting times ahead!
The interesting question is what will replace what we now call "journalism", and how it will work.
Interesting times ahead!
One might well call it for what it is, PR and propaganda, but in my experience one will want to retain the title "journalist" for all the positive emotional weight it contains.
I've had drinks with a few local paper "journalists" of the current, young generations and the reality of their work is shaping of narrative rather than reporting, but on the topic of job title view themselves in the same light as an Upton Sinclair. Brings to mind the early 2010s "positively changing the world" startup software engineers building Orwellian systems.