It's interesting to contrast this post with this one on ACX: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-lies. Maybe we already live in a world where factual lies in the media are quite rare, but that still doesn't prevent all kinds of bias and misleading to creep in. What further standards do we need to bring journalism to a higher standard?
Journalism didn't become a "respected" profession until the 1970s; perhaps not coincidentally when colleges started setting up journalism programs. Before that, journalists were blue-collar workers, with very little respect (see, e.g., _The Front Page_, _His Girl Friday_, _Ace in the Hole_, etc.) None of these reporters were portrayed as noble.
It's interesting to contrast this post with this one on ACX: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-lies. Maybe we already live in a world where factual lies in the media are quite rare, but that still doesn't prevent all kinds of bias and misleading to creep in. What further standards do we need to bring journalism to a higher standard?
Journalism didn't become a "respected" profession until the 1970s; perhaps not coincidentally when colleges started setting up journalism programs. Before that, journalists were blue-collar workers, with very little respect (see, e.g., _The Front Page_, _His Girl Friday_, _Ace in the Hole_, etc.) None of these reporters were portrayed as noble.