We on the so-called Left have been screaming that at the MSM for decades to no avail but now there are others that are trying to get the MSM to actually report the news….

Journalists have always been a fairly morose bunch, and the news they produce reflects that. Communications scholars have found that across many years and countries, coverage of political topics tends to more often be conveyed in a negative or cynical tone rather than a positive one; one study in the mid-2000s found that about half of US, German, Italian, and Austrian campaign coverage conveyed bad news, while as little as 6 percent conveyed good news. By some measures, the situation is deteriorating; a recent study found that the “proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness” grew markedly in the US between 2000 and 2019.

Some news consumers have surrendered to the phenomenon and find themselves hooked on “doomscrolling,” in journalist Karen Ho’s memorable term, proceeding between articles asking if the war in Ukraine could be World War III, or whether another world-destabilizing pandemic could be on the way, or if we’ve already passed key climate tipping points. At least some news consumers aren’t too happy about the situation. An international survey from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism last year found that in almost every country surveyed, trust in media is falling, and more people are saying they’re avoiding news. Why? Because, respondents say, it “has a negative effect on their mood.”

So … why are we like this? Are we journalists just a miserable lot who insist on spreading our neuroses to the rest of the world? Are readers, despite their protestations to the contrary, likelier to click on news that’s negative or dire?

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23596969/bad-news-negativity-bias-media

News consumers should not have to search for hours to find factual news….but we do live in the age of social media and that has crapped all over the news plus the Clinton admin signing a law into being that allowed corporations to own the news.

So I among others scream into the void “Do your damn job”….and wait for the day when news becomes factual again….

There are some that feel that ‘integrity’ should return to the media…..

In the formal rooms of the University Club of Chicago the loudest applause was not reserved for celebrity. It was reserved for refusal.

The refusal to accept an official story merely because it was official and trade editorial independence for access; refusal for leaving wrongdoing concealed because disclosure might end a career and invite prosecution or fracture and upend a life.

The second annual Integrity Media Independent Journalism Awards on Sept. 17 brought journalists, publishers, lawyers, supporters, and whistleblowers into the same room and treated their work not as separate pursuits, but as parts of a shared democratic undertaking against autocracy and authoritarianism.

We attended as members of the wider whistleblower community that the event sought to honor. What stayed with us was not simply the roster of accomplished recipients.

Integrity in Media Is Possible

(Time for a smile here)  That day is not coming any time soon….until then I guess I will continue to scream…(I’m getting tired)….and the void just smiles.

Any thoughts on this?

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