Game Over?

Journalists used to be taught to tell the story from both sides and keep your thoughts and opinion out of the story.

It appears that is no longer the case with today’s Journalists.

A new report by the RAND Corporation says that U.S.-based journalism has gradually shifted away from objective news and offers more opinion-based content that appeals to emotion and relies heavily on argumentation and advocacy.

The study shows that as journalism expanded beyond traditional media, such as newspapers and broadcast networks, to newer media, such as 24-hour cable channels and digital outlets, so did objectivity.

Journalism in the U.S. has become more subjective and consists less of the detailed event- or context-based reporting that used to characterize news coverage," said Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior political scientist and lead author of the report.

The findings see a shift over time between old and new media toward a more subjective form of journalism that is grounded in personal perspective.

I’m sorry, there is no doubt that there has been a shift, but I’m not sure that you can still call it “Journalism.”

I don’t think watching CNN, Fox or MSNBC is anything even close to Journalism these days.

This lack of real Journalism has slowly filtered down to local TV as well. You just need to watch a few minutes of a Sinclair or Tegna station to see that real Journalism is an endangered species these days and that my friends is very, very sad.

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