/lit/ - Literature

>>24161860
Try working as a journalist and punch out 650 words before 9:30 a.m.

>>23710419
Journalism as a prestige profession seems relatively new, like a post-Watergate when the Washington Post brought down Nixon. The press really took that and rode with it. Journalists also love to give each other loads of meaningless awards. Also probably the rise of T.V. news with mature-looking network news anchors. But historically, it seemed like a grittier, low-paid profession with the average reporters coming more from talented but poor, working-class backgrounds. A movie that made fun of the cliches of old newspaper people was the Hudsucker Proxy:
https://youtu.be/vgX1clgR-7w

>>23208968
The traditional reporter archetype is like a robot (wearing a khaki trenchcoat and a brimmed hat with a PRESS card sticking out of it) who collects facts and presents them like a computer would.

Gonzo journalism has had a lot of influence but that's been basically every VICE documentary. Hunter S. Thompson did it in an extreme way that was part of the counterculture in the 1960s and was taken up by magazines like Playboy, Rolling Stone and alt-weeklies like the Village Voice.

>>22817832
>Chomsky delivers great structural analysis on how propaganda machines work but then selectively chooses when he wants to side with our own propaganda machine in real life.
Sure. But he doesn't thinks everything the propaganda machine says is false. That's an important thing. It seems more effective in that it does present facts but there's a propaganda narrative that is running through it, in which facts that support the narrative are emphasized and facts which do not are deemphasized or ignored.

To simply reject everything the media says as false "because it's all propaganda" isn't reading it critically. Instead you can become an anti-social conspiracy theorist who believe whatever Alex Jones says. But if you're talking about COVID for example, Chomsky believes it's a real thing and people should get vaccines. Or climate change is real. Just because the New York Times says it's real doesn't mean it isn't. But the New York Times will also take you to war.