The election results put an exclamation point on pervasive concerns about distrust and dissatisfaction with the news media. Now a reckoning is underway. Media execs and rank-and-file reporters are wondering what needs to change. So here are some concrete ideas... 🧵
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I often get the sense that many of you believe that the freedom of press belongs to you. In fact, it belongs to us.
What use is media if it has no market share. Unless it is intended to be only a niche media.
Facts are facts. Period.
Can't balance facts...unless they're alternative facts.
But some are inconvenient facts and 🤔 must not be talked about?
What we talk about needs to be "balanced". Even inconvenient facts need to be talked about.
You are agreeing with what you think I said.
Our news feeds, thus our agendas, are controlled as much by what is not reported as by the misinformation that is reported.
And it also led to the routine platforming of knowingly bad faith "pundits" who routinely lie on panel "discussions" that seem to assume there are two sides to every story.
1) normalizing extremely bad behavior of GOP/Trump
2) both siding and double standards applied to GOP
3) fear mongering to get more clicks/eyeballs
4) platforming chronic liars and with little to no fact checking