That’s exactly my point, the news is the bitter pill we have to swallow all encapsulated in the sugary entertainment. You can’t blame people for wanting entertainment, but if you call yourself a journalist, then they should act like one.
Buzzfeed used to do exactly this - they used the revenue from the entertainment/clickbait articles to fund their division that focused on real news reporting. They even won a Pulitzer prize. They shut it down this year due to budget cuts though.
They report on that because that’s what their readers care about. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
They can do both? You can have entertainment news along side real news, just list it that way.
I didn’t state that they couldn’t do both. I stated that their readership didn’t necessarily want both.
That’s exactly my point, the news is the bitter pill we have to swallow all encapsulated in the sugary entertainment. You can’t blame people for wanting entertainment, but if you call yourself a journalist, then they should act like one.
Buzzfeed used to do exactly this - they used the revenue from the entertainment/clickbait articles to fund their division that focused on real news reporting. They even won a Pulitzer prize. They shut it down this year due to budget cuts though.
I’ll hate both, thanks.
Except they also actively silence news people want to hear in the name of politically ideaology