People Are Fed Up With the Bias of Journalism - Journalists Hardest Hit

There are a bunch of stories in the "news" in the past week or so, lamenting the fact that no one wants to pay for "journalism." I’m scared and you should be too: The state of journalism from the perspective of a student journalist

This is only one story from the past week. There are many from the past few months that are not that different.

On Jan. 23 the Los Angeles Times announced they were laying off 20% of their newsroom staff. That’s 115 writers, editors, photographers and other positions.

As a student journalist this news hit hard. Layoffs and closures are becoming all too common at news organizations around the country. It scares me as someone looking to enter the job field, and it should scare anyone who values democracy in America.

Yes, that sounds scary. Until you remember the glee with which "professional journalists" cheered on the mandated lockdowns during the reign of the "unspecified virus of unknown origins," the fervor with with they trumpeted the "Russia! Russia! Russia!" narrative against Trump, the wall of "that is a disinformation campaign" that they built around the Hunter Biden laptop story.

This was accompanied by hand-wringing about how "this is not supposed to happen to my beloved LA Times."

Even today the "professional journalists" routinely obfuscate the race of mass shooters (unless the race is white), the problems that exist on our southern border, and more. And after all of that they are shocked that people are stopping payments to news organizations.

I do agree that we need local journalists to keep local politicians in line, but people studying journalism in college don't aspire to running a local newspaper in rural Michigan; they expect to work for the LA Times, or the WaPo, or whatever. They dream of being the next Woodward, but not reporting on how the county board in some rural county in Nebraska is spending and/or wasting money.

And the current state of journalism is not new. Journalists have been decrying layoffs for a decade or more. Why is anyone majoring in journalism today? Oh that's right, he was told to "follow his bliss" even if that means spending $150,000 or more on a degree that will prepare him for working a coffee shop.

I can't tell you the last time I read a newspaper, or listened to a local radio or news broadcast. Why? Because I learned a long time ago that they were mostly lying to me. Often they were lies of omission, but lately they have just been lies.

Has everyone forgotten Ra^thergate? I haven't.

I would support journalism, if they weren't such a bunch of biased hacks. This is a story from a US source; the Canadian stories are even worse in some ways, since they are already in the pocket of the government and don't understand why their support of the Powers That Be haven't translated into larger bailouts. Those stories are complete with the "anyone who contradicts us is spreading misinformation!" line. In other words, they are voicing their support for censorship.