Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones declared recently that “all journalism is activism.” Advocacy journalism is all the rage in journalism schools and on major media platforms. ...
The result is that the mainstream media is increasing speaking to itself and a dwindling number of viewers and readers. NPR is again a good example. ...
So we are left with the variation of a common Zen-like question: if the media reports and no one is listening, does it still make a noise?
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