When did journalism become a non respectable job?

Question

This is for both sides other than the opinionated shows. News!!

Answer 1

There used to be laws which prohibited companies from owning more than one TV station, Newspaper and radio station. This law was based on scarcity. Meaning that there was only a limited amount of of space on the airwaves available. But since cable TV and the internet have been introduced, they no longer can claim there are a limited amount of stations available. Now, Big conglomerates can buy up big portions of the mainstream media and inflict their opinions on it's viewers.

The days of people like Walter Cronkite are gone.

Now days you can't read or view any one source to feel confident you are getting the real truth.

This once highly honorable profession is fast becoming bright Yellow!

As for your comment about the elections..., it shames me to say it's all about ratings. The media not only falls for the smears the Republican party keeps putting out..., they actually thrive on it. They can't wait for more. God forbid..., they would have to just report the boring truth.

Answer 2

Several events caused it. First was the decision by the broadcast networks to make their news divisions profit centers. In earlier times the news could lose money as long as the entertainment shows made money. This decision put news on the same footing as entertainment. Second was the creation of the 24-hour news cycle driven by cable TV operations devoted strictly to news, with no entertainment product. Next was the generational replacement of journalists who had earned their spurs in the print medium and who practiced the first rule of good journalism: If your mother says she loves you, check it out! The replacements were the product of university-based schools of journalism where the curriculum had no core required studies in history, science, political science, geography or foreign cultures and languages.

All of these factors came together in the "perfect storm". Where the profit motive and the intense competition of the 24-hour news cycle goaded them into stories designed to draw a crowd so that, during the commercial breaks, the sponsors could sell stuff to that captive audience. If the story was not a real "grabber" then it could be augmented by a panel of experts on the set to pontificate on the story even though they had no personal involvement in the story. To the point where one female anchor was actually heard to say to one of the "experts" on a cable news set: "Would you care to speculate on those assumptions?".

Finally, there was a centralization of news production in the financial and political centers of the U.S. (New York City and Washington D.C.) which produced an almost surreal atmosphere of journalists whose entire universe did not extend beyond the geographical limits of the 13 original States. They eat out together, attend parties and professional functions together and have developed an insularity off the job which rivals cloistered monks.

I bless the memory of my father for the magnificent gift he presented to me on my tenth birthday. It was a Grundig  short wave radio receiver. I plugged it in and the world came at me out of the sound box. Since then I've been a devoted listener to over 40 nations on this planet and rely on short wave radio as one of my chief sources of news.

BTW, I'm listening to Moscow right now.  

Answer 3

Since the invention of Fox News

Answer 4

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