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There really isn't such a thing as straight journalism anymore. Most articles I've read are 'persuasion' pieces. It is rather sad.

• gnull 5y ago
  Has it ever been different?
  • the-dude 5y ago
    I think so. At least here in NL, the journalist class decided somewhere in 70s or early 80s, they had an obligation to do 'good' instead of only doing inpartial reporting. Of course, their defintion of 'good' might differ from mine or yours.
    • adolph 5y ago
      The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
      • the-dude 5y ago
        What is the saying, and from whom? To paraphrase, only things people don't want you to write is journalism, the rest is propaganda.