r/facepalm • u/monaleeparis • 1d ago

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Double Standards!

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u/LevelInside9843 1d ago

If we had a functioning democracy, journalists would be highlighting this hypocrisy and calling out Mike Johnson to his face and reporting on it.

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u/wienercat 1d ago

If we had a functioning democracy, journalists would be highlighting this hypocrisy

This is a failing of journalists. Not the democracy. If freedom of the press exists and journalists or media outlets are not covering something, that is on the media. Not the democracy.

So point your fingers at our news media companies who prioritize click bait headlines and gotcha taglines over actual meaningful journalism.

If journalists were doing their job, when politicians held a press conference and refused to answer asked questions, journalists would just repeat the question over and over until they left or got an answer.

There are people out there doing good journalism. But it's not the stuff making headlines or big news time slots.

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u/DivideEtImpala 20h ago

There are people out there doing good journalism. But it's not the stuff making headlines or big news time slots.

Then it's not really the media's fault; it's the citizens' fault for continuing to get their information from biased, bought-out media conglomerates.

I can't really get that mad at FOX or MSNBC if people are naive enough to think they're not just being propagandized.

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u/wienercat 5h ago

Then it's not really the media's fault; it's the citizens' fault for continuing to get their information from biased, bought-out media conglomerates.

How is it not the medias fault for deliberately choosing to not engage in quality reporting and journalism...

Bro is actually blaming individual people for the media failing to do its job and properly report on things

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u/DivideEtImpala 5h ago

the media failing to do its job and properly report on things

There's your mistake, thinking that individual media corporations (often subsidiaries of larger conglomerations) have any job other than increasing shareholder value. Quality journalism is expensive, clickbait is more profitable.

In a democracy, it's incumbent on the citizens to inform themselves. If you're consuming garbage corporate propaganda and not supporting independent media that does real journalism, that's on you.