Both of these have been journalism then and now. Fluff pieces have existed since literally the earliest days of journalism. And obviously we have reporters still going to Afghanistan and Ukraine despite enormous risks to their own personal safety.

So… meh.

Good, real journalism is out there; it's just being masked by all of the clickbait fluff

There are literally western journalists in prison in oppressive regimes right now because they were there reporting on things. Meanwhile back in the day there were journalists musing on how the radical MLK was going to destroy American society and oppress white people when he’s done burning cities down.

How much money do you spend on journalism each month OP?

The right exists because people want everything for free (meaning with ads) so producing the stuff that generates the most clicks is what people get.

If you want investigative journalism you have to show that by paying for that

Not true. Example: https://youtube.com/@friendlyjordies?si=YI2XoFGYhPMN4BRN

This guy got his house firebombed because he exposed corrupt politicians.

Oh no journalists are all woke libtards now because some website you don’t like exists.

Jamal Khashoggi was fucking butchered like an animal by the Saudi royal family for reporting in the middle east

Fuck you

Oh shit, I didn't know Ron DeSantis had a Lemmy account! What's up, meatball?

I remember listening to a podcast from a NYT reporter near the start of the Russia/Ukraine war. This lady went to Russia and started interviewing draftees right outside of the recruitment offices.

May not be a war torn battlefield, but that definitely takes some balls.

I mean if you can get away with raking in 100k a year typing out listicles on why spongebob is homophobic, from home, in your underwear, between reruns of Suits, popping chips into your mouth, fuck, have at it

There was a bunch of media flying around when I was a kid that SpongeBob was turning kids gay. So this meme is kinda close to reality.

Petr Ruzavin is too busy to chime in.

media amalasis bad >:((