RE: What is investigative journalism?
March 26, 2017 at 12:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2017 at 12:23 pm by Silent Snob.)
(March 26, 2017 at 11:40 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: Could there be something like "fake" investigative journalism?
It's called Breitbart where they make shit up and peddle it to fascist fools.
What would you prefer instead? Not that I think that Breitbart isn't some ...... (fill in the blank), I'm just asking for a better idea. And to clarify my political stance: I'm by no means, by no standarts, in any kind of shape or form, an alt-right-winger. Like totally not. But that does not mean I'm opposing the . In my view there is so much crap out there, regarding "information", and nobody is excluded from spreading mere ideological poo-poo on the information-highway, because I think all do it, to a certain degree.
I haven't read a news-paper completely, or a news-magazine from the beginning to the end for years in a row. It just bores my ass off. And I'm not even a us-american citizen.
So, Breitbart is bad. What's the alternative?
I have no dog in that race. I'm an intellectual stupid by choise. I'm just asking questions. And that I do merely for the sake of.
(Disclaimer: I have to admit I wasn't totally honest about not having a dog in the race. I do have ideas/concepts and even some dogs I, personally" would prefer to run for......(fill in the blank). I'm just sooooo utterly dissapointed by ..... (fill in the blank) that I was unable to not give a damn. So yes, I have two dogs in both of your political partys, over there in us-america. And I'm not telling who they are.)
Back to topic:
What would be a pre-condition for a free press to be able to express itself freely (so called free speech) in order to be able to do its job? What are these pre-conditions?
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I'm sorry if I have derailed my own thread. I really am.
