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What is Wrong With Today’s News?
Opinion journalism and corporate control has ruined the free press
Opinion Journalism
Only 26 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the news media. This is according to a poll published last month. The same poll reports that 53 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view.
This is quite damning.
Is part of it because of the rise of ideologically based journalism?
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I agree with Ted Koppel. The news today is not news. It is mostly entertainment. Ideological. Driven by opinions (and profit). Fear. Division. Tribalism. Some it is outright alignment with bad actor and bad state actors who never should receive such treatment from the press.
Here’s a statement Koppel made in 2018 before things really got bad:
“I would suggest to all of you who are consumers of journalism … to focus on those sources of information that are most closely associated with facts rather than…
