https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/%3Famp=true
Here’s an article from time talking about the modern slave trade in Africa
This is a lazy, bullshit criticism because it starts with the assumption that they don’t ever talking about something just because they aren’t talking about it now.
https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/
Fixed your link.
They report on that because that’s what their readers care about. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
They can do both? You can have entertainment news along side real news, just list it that way.
I didn’t state that they couldn’t do both. I stated that their readership didn’t necessarily want both.
That’s exactly my point, the news is the bitter pill we have to swallow all encapsulated in the sugary entertainment. You can’t blame people for wanting entertainment, but if you call yourself a journalist, then they should act like one.
Buzzfeed used to do exactly this - they used the revenue from the entertainment/clickbait articles to fund their division that focused on real news reporting. They even won a Pulitzer prize. They shut it down this year due to budget cuts though.
I’ll hate both, thanks.
Except they also actively silence news people want to hear in the name of politically ideaology
Do people still not realize that there’s different things for different things? And that just because there’s a focus on one thing, that doesn’t mean there can’t be focus on other things?
Everyone today is so absorbed with living in the black or white where life exists within the grey.
I get what you’re saying but why the fuck does what Selena Gomez do with her IG count as news?
To people that care about her, and have interest in her as a person…… anything she does is news.
I’d be willing to be that you have a game/TV show/movie/sport that you follow. Anything done with it- would be News to you. Would you suggest that the “journalist” writing about it stop and cover human trafficking instead?
Nothing I follow or care about compares to a celebrity changing their IG to private, no. It’s just fucking stupid and continues to play into the very unhealthy celebrity worship problem in the US.
I definitely want Linus Tech Tips to cover human trafficking.
I’ve seen more internet outrage directed at LTT than at trafficking.
I mean… who am I supposed to @ in my anti-trafficking Xceretions?
Do people still not realize that high school gossip isn’t journalism? So it’s rather stupid for a news publication to pass off such crap as news.
As long as the lights cost money to keep on, they have to go where the readers are, for better or worse. I don’t get mad at my mirror for the person in it.
If you don’t like what private entities are publishing, you can always just start your own and only publish the things you like. They can’t even stop you, they have to just let you do it!
What’s journalism to to you, isn’t guaranteed to be to someone else- and vice-versa. And while I don’t care what celebrities do with their lives or social media accounts- I believe and accept that I am only part of the target audience of journalism-
Not the entirety of it.
So as long as there will be people that care about these sorts of things, they deserve to have journalism informing them of such things, regardless of how much it bothers you.
This always disgusts me. In the words of the great Lupe Fiasco
- dude is dating so and so, blabbering about such and such. And that ain’t jersey shore, homie that’s the news! And these are the same people supposedly telling us the truth
Prophetic
Selena Gomez is clearly involved in the Libyan slave trade
coomer just updated…
the real fool is the one who expected the media to care about the truths and real troubles of the world, in my eyes
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just because a news source does make an article on it, it doesn’t mean they promote it as much as they promote something else on their website, they make such articles to cover their backs if people make points regarding it
