Aral Balkan
“Without a driving mission, journalism is guided by profit and, often, power. Without a theory of change, journalism resists it. Without a framework for measuring real-world impact, journalism counts what people click with little concern for what they do.”
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/journalism-power-public-good-community-infrastructure.php
Entitled journalists threatening to “leave the app” unless they get “quote tweets” could do worse than to read and attempt to understand this piece.
Aral Balkan
@astrojuanlu That’s quite all right. You don’t have to engage with things you don’t want to here.
And no one gets to force anyone else to confront people directly (it wasn’t just one person’s post, for the record). My not calling people out by name is on purpose because my goal isn’t to dogpile on them.
Personally, I’d rather see far less direct confrontation and finger pointing here. My goal isn’t to have public arguments with people but to make folks think and have conversations on topics.
Juan Luis
@aral I saw the original post this message is sub-tooting and I'm done with this sort of negativity on my timeline to be absolutely honest. Framing points of view you disagree with as entitled threats without even engaging with them directly is not the fediverse I want.
Aral Balkan
David Zaslavsky
@astrojuanlu @aral Thank you for saying that, I also do not want that sort of negativity from the fediverse
Aral Balkan
@diazona And you’re lecturing me about negativity? Good afternoon to you, sir :)
David Zaslavsky
@aral Yes, I read that before replying. I posted because I thought it was valuable to show support for the opinion @astrojuanlu was expressing; I don't particularly care about whatever response or reaction you may have.
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