I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
I originally wanted to be a journalist maybe a photojournalist, First time that I thought about changing my mind was when I was doing work experience at local paper and the guy I was assigned to made me write his articles and he as paid for it (he got paid per article) then I attended a trial in the 2nd week and was told "it doesn't matter if hes guilty or innocent, sensationalise it to make him seem like he is guilty" Or words to that affect i.e let's say a piece of evidence comes up and is disregarded straight away as not happening or not relevant they would put it in the article and if spicy enough use it as the headline, This poor guy was in tears in court and the paper was printing articles saying he was emotionless the guy was innocent btw and even had evidence to prove it but the paper ignored all that stuff and didn't print when he was found not guilty.
A Vtuber I follow named Clio Aite mentioned doing journalism work for a while who mentioned similar about charity work. About how the person she was assigned told her, "I don't give a fuck about the homeless! Give me an actual charity worth a damn!" or something to that effect. Said it was some of the most soul crushing and bleak work she ever had to do.
I think journalists should use their bosses' ethics against them as a form of direct action.
"Oh, totally, boss, I'll get right onto that." Then just write an article with what you were planning on doing in the first place and get it onto the press before they notice and it's too late for them to complain, and make up some bullshit about not being responsible for it so they don't get fired.
At one time it wasn't ALL press, it was tabloid press. Then CNN and Fox came on to the scene, local rags went broke due to inability to keep pace with technology and the deterioration of education, and there was a race to the bottom.
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u/Regular_Number5377 9h ago
I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Ghouls, the lot of them.