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@Remittancegirl
> And I'm not less informed about world events. I noticed that 90% of my consumption had been some thinly veiled sort of op-ed
Ironically it was the time I spent as a reporter for Indymedia - about 2 decades ago - that make me start disengaging from most legacy news media.
I was doing actual reportage, from the field, and I lost count of the number of times their articles directly contradicted what I'd seen with my own eyes.
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After a while I started noticing that most of what the corporate news media coverage was doing was setting the agenda. Determining how emerging national and world situations would be framed. Usually in the ways most favorable to corporations and their pet politicians.
Who really needs to waste their precious time and attention on that sort of thing?
@strypey reported from the ground for well over a decade before becoming a desk journo, and never had this discrepancy. Rather just pieces stood down or scratched last minute due to repriotising or breaking news... maybe am lucky
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@fulelo
It probably has a lot to do with the beat you're covering. I was generally reporting on protests and other activism-related stuff. Which were often directly targeting the corporations who were profiting from the social or environmental ills being protested.