The hubris lies in pretending that journalists are somehow seekers of the whole truth. This hubris was punctured when social media started calling out mistakes and biases.
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This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Basically, Jaggi is saying that journalists like him are worse than whores! What he doesn’t understand is that news journalists had a system of checks and balances which made them culpable for accuracy of information. With the advent of social media, every average village idiot talks like (s)he is an expert. That’s the damage that social media has done. Robbed journalism of its need for checks and balances.
“journalism is never without its biases, for no human being is without bias. “. Precise words. Any publication, online or offline will have its biases. The reader(s) should be aware of that always.
I used to think ‘The Hindu’ is the truth and whole truth. Only after I educated myself with politics and economics, I realised that it is a communist trash worthy of a toilet paper.
Basically, Jaggi is saying that journalists like him are worse than whores! What he doesn’t understand is that news journalists had a system of checks and balances which made them culpable for accuracy of information. With the advent of social media, every average village idiot talks like (s)he is an expert. That’s the damage that social media has done. Robbed journalism of its need for checks and balances.
“journalism is never without its biases, for no human being is without bias. “. Precise words. Any publication, online or offline will have its biases. The reader(s) should be aware of that always.
I used to think ‘The Hindu’ is the truth and whole truth. Only after I educated myself with politics and economics, I realised that it is a communist trash worthy of a toilet paper.