Greg Cote gone from The Herald

[MiamisMoperiestMopes]

Most podcasts have just become sensationalized slop, imo. There are some decent ones out there, but most of the time it isn't actual journalism, it's "here's what I think and I have a microphone and an audience that likes to hear me speak loudly...so I must be right and you should listen to me" kind of stuff. It's not actually vetted, and you can't fact check sources from a podcast who's main sources are mainly "trust me bro". That's the issue I have with a lot of it, no matter what political or philosophical bent we're critiquing. Today's media leans hard on whoever can yell and gish-gallop the fastest/loudest over others that are legitimately trying to discuss facts. Journalism and debate culture are both sorely suffering from those kinds of approaches.

At least with articles, I can read them, go do my own research and reading either during or after I read them, and check the veracity of their sources versus reality. Podcasts and live broadcasts are tougher to do that with, and unfortunately, most people just don't bother to do so.

I'll hop off my soapbox...lol...this is probably a discussion better meant for the Off-Topic boards instead of the football one.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

 

[Fzac75]

People get mad about takes or reports that they don’t like, or political views in editorials (shockingly on the old-school "opinions" pages that they don’t like) - unless of course its their network or blog or publication of choice that self-confirms theirs, so it's "unbiased", but this country is going to regret not having good local reporting and investigation at some point -if they you don’t already know your local YouTuber or influencer isn’t what I’m talking about in almost every case.

The media companies blew it; they brought on their own demise. The market has spoken, but a real, independent press, free from being bullied by their government, is super ******* important, and we are losing it.

And if you don't think that's happening, well... FSU is a good program right now too

Firstly, God bless Greg Cote, my favorite writer from the Miami Herald with Edwin Pope a close second.

My Opinion:

The issue with print journalism and legacy media is simple. The digital age accelerated print media’s death, but media and “journalism” has been dying sadly, for quite some time. There was a time where “journalism” was unbiased, here are the facts to the story, all the facts, and you the reader or viewer make your determination, as it should be.
But for quite some time, since the ‘70s there was a shift, and the bias becoming more and more relevant. Then came the genius of Rupert Murdoch, when it became blatantly obvious, the “news networks” were really just a political arm for one party, I mean CNN was know down here as Castro News Network for a reason, Murdoch created Fox News catering the news to the 50% of Americans who lean right, which in turn left CNN, even more MS WHATEVER THEY CALL THEMSELVES NOW, ABC, CBS, NBC to fight for the other 50% audience. Now if said “journalists” would have done their actual jobs of just reporting facts both positive and negative, regardless of what party was in power, there would have been no Fox News. In this creation and other outlets that lean right, it shown a gigantic bright light on the absolute BS that these supposed “journalists” are. They are all just propagandists now sadly, and the public in general see this. Thus “journalism” is dying.

Funny thing, when I spent traveling the country, from every major city to towns like Paducah, KY, interacting and socializing with the lcoals, one thing is for certain. ALMOST EVERYONE is similar in thought, center left or center right, but almost 90% of EVERYONE are just lemmings who vote REP or DEM no matter what

 

[Cane_Mutiny]

We never find out about Epstein without the investigative reporting by Julie Brown from the Miami Herald. Less than zero chance cnn or Fox would have spent a 3 seconds looking into it.

It’s not a good thing that newspapers are dying. Reminds me that I need to renew my online subscription to my local newspaper.

100% right. Say what you will, but the Herald was once a serious journalistic institution, and even today still has talented reporters on staff. Without the Herald, Epstein's crimes never get exposed to a wider audience. It's horrible what has happened to local newspapers. At this point, they have almost all been bought up by private equity and are gradually being bled dry. We have lost a major public good, whether you agree with the politics of some reporters or not.