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Journalists today seem to want to sensationalise everything, make stories appear to be a Hollywood disaster movie, guessing on how events happen, trying to put the fear of God in people. Today's story from class 3a as the weather "London weather-snow in Essex is temperatures plunge to near freezing". Wow, it PLUNGED to 1 degree C, in December. Oh my GOD, are we all going to die ?, and when was Essex in London?. They are also predicting more "wintery" weather, oooh, scarey, I mean, what sort of weather should we expect in winter ? Why not just say "It's a bit nippy, put on proper clothing and use common sense" ?
 
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They've always done this, it's not a recent thing! It's what sells...
 
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They've always done this, it's not a recent thing! It's what sells...
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Do you not think reporting in general has gone downhill ? There seems to be very little research done into certain stories, take the unfortunate incident yesterday, 3 reports gave 3 different descriptions of what sort of facility it occurred at. Spelling is dire as well.
 
Ihavenojob said:
Journalists today seem to want to sensationalise everything, make stories appear to be a Hollywood disaster movie, guessing on how events happen, trying to put the fear of God in people. Today's story from class 3a is the weather "London weather-snow in Essex is temperatures plunge to near freezing". Wow, it PLUNGED to 1 degree C, in December. Oh my GOD, are we all going to die ?, and when was Essex in London?. They are also predicting more "wintery" weather, oooh, scarey, I mean, what sort of weather should we expect in winter ? Why not just say "It's a bit nippy, put on proper clothing and use common sense" ?
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The cognitive dissonance is off the scale.

Stop reading the DM, Breitbart, FB.

So why is reporting sensationalist - well they need to get people interested in the narrative and not the details. So journalists are not informing as much as enticing and eliciting a response.
 
Ihavenojob said:
Do you not think reporting in general has gone downhill ? There seems to be very little research done into certain stories, take the unfortunate incident yesterday, 3 reports gave 3 different descriptions of what sort of facility it occurred at. Spelling is dire as well.
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Yes, spelling etc is pretty bad for companies who are all about the written word! Quality, possibly. Journo's are cheap kids nowadays in the red tops.. proper old school journalists cost money, a fairly hefty wage.


But as far as sensationlism goes, no. It's just on a par of our society today.

Regarding the incident yesterday, people expect their news instantly. It's often incorrect, esp at the beginning until some actual journalism has taken place! In the old days you'd have read about it the next day, that's more time to get some of the facts correct.
 
sodthisforfun said:
Yes, spelling etc is pretty bad for companies who are all about the written word! Quality, possibly. Journo's are cheap kids nowadays in the red tops.. proper old school journalists cost money, a fairly hefty wage.


But as far as sensationlism goes, no. It's just on a par of our society today.

Regarding the incident yesterday, people expect their news instantly. It's often incorrect, esp at the beginning until some actual journalism has taken place! In the old days you'd have read about it the next day, that's more time to get some of the facts correct.
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The news agency have to compete with the rubbish on social media, ergo they are becoming more like social media by having people leave comments on their sites.

It's a dangerous road we are travelling as the likes of FB etc are not responsible for the content on their sites so someone can start up wild rumours or push a false narrative to gain traction on an issue. The result is manufactured consent where people get tricked into voting against their best interests.

We need trusted sources of information - journalists have an important role to play but we are seeing how this is being eroded.
 
Ihavenojob said:
Journalists today seem to want to sensationalise everything, make stories appear to be a Hollywood disaster movie, guessing on how events happen, trying to put the fear of God in people. Today's story from class 3a as the weather "London weather-snow in Essex is temperatures plunge to near freezing". Wow, it PLUNGED to 1 degree C, in December. Oh my GOD, are we all going to die ?, and when was Essex in London?. They are also predicting more "wintery" weather, oooh, scarey, I mean, what sort of weather should we expect in winter ? Why not just say "It's a bit nippy, put on proper clothing and use common sense" ?
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Been like this for ages. Tabloids especially go mad about the weather, it's always a heatwave that will kill, winds that will destroy, rain that will flood or snow that will bury the whole country, and then we get a few hours a drizzle, a bin gets blown over and all back to normal.

But it works. Headlines sell, they make money.
 
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