Anyone reasonably trained knows this. But for reporters in their 20s, they’ve never seen or heard of anything else.
In the UK, it’s because we have a monoculture. 80% of journalists come from professional and upper class backgrounds according to a new report from the NCTJ so they don’t question authority or speak truth to power because it’s their buddies!
I see some angry person. The good type of angry — directing his anger at the right things.
To be clear: Bode is not criticising the fact that journalists quote what CEOs say. He’s criticising the fact they do it and call it a day, as if saying “trust the CEO”.
It goes without saying that CEOs are really loud when saying what they want the sucker (you) to believe. So if that’s all you want, you need no journalist. A journalist is only useful if you want to know the factual reality; but for that they need to contextualise and challenge the claims, not just parrot them.
I’d end with some noble call for the U.S. media industry to do better, but it’s abundantly clear they don’t want to.
If it’s any consolation it isn’t just the United-Statian media.
The pattern is obvious when you start looking for labor representation in mass media, like what were the labor leaders quoted saying regarding the same thing the capitalist executive is talking about, or how many articles quote just an executive vs how many just quote a labor leader.
Who believes billionaire media anymore? It’s not journalism, just more spin/entertainment designed to ignite a fire of hate between american citizens for dollars. I say we build a guillotine for capitalism (the rest of the shitty billionaires will fall soon afterwards).
A very large part of tech and finance journalism consists of paid engagements.
