Journalism Quality Critique

i thought we already solved that; it's called journalismjust read the economist or NYT or whatever you like and stfu instead of thinking you're going to somehow to a better job gathering and exploring information than that

I'm sorry to hear about your situation. But the issue in journalism that I hear most often isn't about the quality of writing, it's about the editorial decisions, the choice of what to write about and how to spin it, and the lack of sufficient fact checking and investigation. I think the writing skills are fine. In fact I'd prefer that the writing skills went down a notch: I'd rather have someone just give me a dull list of facts.I'd happily pay for a newsfeed

Oh, I would say it's a very "journalistic" complaint, unfortunately. Apparently, there is a fair market for that (given the popularity of sites like newyorker.com on HN), but in general what some journalist wants to write is almost opposite to what I want to read. I want to know news, meaning as short and pointed messages as possible, and "no news today" would be actually a good thing. A journalist who thinks he is "good" (note the "graduated from Ivy Leag

yes, you've just done better investigative journalism than most major news reporters these days, who hew so closely to the party line regardless of merit. i can hardly read nytimes (or listen to npr) anymore because of it. alas, they've traded away their fragile reputations for soulless clicks and cash.

Any type of journalism that actually talks to people and gets the facts straight is rare these days. Most news reports and journalism these days just repeat hearsay. You have to read print sources that actually make money off this stuff through paid subscriptions such as the New York times or the Wall Street journal. And even then you have to wade through the poor reporting and agenda driven journalism. Having said that I'm not sure if the author of this piece could be called a journalist e

You've hit on a question that is extremely interesting and quite philosophical. Fundamentally - are professional journalists a good idea or a bad idea? Note that Hacker News is basically volunteer run with a thin layer of corporate control and good moderation, so in principle we might all be happy to live without articles by formal journalists appearing on the site - making do with blogs and suchlike.It isn't at all obvious that the large centralised news media companies are a good

Oh no journalists might have to go out into the world and do journalism again!Maybe journalism doesn’t need to be “getting the scoop” so you can post the same article as every other organization, just with marginally different numbers of minutes between the event happening and an article being generated

This may depend on what you mean by journalism. When I visit news sites, I am there exclusively for factual information on events that are occurring. I do not want to know what the writer happens to feel about these issues.This probably sounds somewhat radical in today's times, but that's largely because of how the media has changed. In my opinion that change has been for much the worse. An example of what I would consider phenomenal reporting is this [1], the New York Times coverag

At some level I think we should stop calling it "journalism". The state of journalism in general is pretty sad, not just with regards to science and technology.The amount of effort required to get down to actual information after reading most stories (about anything) is not trivial. In other words, they are now in the mode of writing click-bait pieces for traffic and letting interested readers to the work real journalists used to do in order to produce substantive material.The

Mainstream journalists are not a good source of information. The WSJ and FT are a great source for business news (for which they have to be good) but that's about it.Journalists are on the cusp of losing their jobs and it's the greatest thing that could happen. For decades, perhaps centuries, they are propaganda arms but now every man with a camera is a better cameraman and every man with a blog is a better writer.Newspapers are doomed. Not because they transformed into liars but