Journalists and media organizations today face a lot of criticism about supposed bias in their reporting. That subject is exhausted and I'm not here to cover that.
What Jernalizm will cover goes back to the basics of reporting. I'm attempting to hold the media accountable for mistakes that simply wound the already-suffering field of journalism even further. Reporters today should not base an entire story off of the creation of a Facebook group. Media organizations should not turn to reading uninformative tweets off of a 3D "Magic" screen because they can't fill the 24-hour news cycle.
This isn't journalism. It's Jernalizm: some convoluted form of what respectable journalism once was. And this new form of media, with its crude spelling, insults both the consumers and the profession. It makes me angry. It makes me fear for the future of the field. And, I'll admit, it keeps me highly amused.
My media criticism is meant as an illustration to those in the field that the product is flawed. Good, informative, substantive stories are often being replaced with sensation and noise. Let's get back to what makes journalism a respectable, trusted source of information.
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