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  • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
    17·
    1 year ago
    1. Journalists are often outsiders to these disputes and a full nuanced description of the situation requires more time than it takes to be the first reporter with the scoop in a world where news outlets pay more for news to be newest than news to be most accurate
    2. News outlets are big corporations and will often be favorable to corporations
    3. Corporations usually give very simple canned statements that are very east to parse and publish while dispersed groups such as unions, protestors, and online forum members have much less centralized narrative and can have a litany of different reasons for sharing a similar stance
    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
      11·
      1 year ago

      It’s more difficult when they can’t just call up John Mastodon from the Fediverse PR department and copy-paste a press release.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’ve experienced 1 first-hand. They call you and leave a voicemail. If you don’t respond within 24 hours they’re going to publish anyway and probably get a lot of things wrong.

      I hear PR companies will basically write for the journalists on request, and sometimes journalists will take it just to get ahead.

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year ago

      Corporate journalism has its own special place in hell for me. After all the creativity was removed from rather central editing functions, I set about automating what was left at a hub and got shown the door when the efficiencies started to threaten justifying salaried positions.