They say Journalism is dead

Journalism literally means writing for a newspaper or news site. So, the term is apt. You may think unbiased Journalistic objectivity is "dead" but Journalism is still very much alive. And Truth be told, bias in Journalism has been going on as long as there have been newspapers. There would be no America with out Silence Dogood. And his letters were printed in 1722 and he was very much biased. The 1800s were a free for all of so-called "Yellow Journalism" with each paper trying to write the most outrageous story to get readers (reminiscent of click-bait Web sites of the present). The early 1900s were a dumping ground for propganda and racism in newspapers. The mid-to-late 1900s were rife with tabloids. if you don't believe me, I encourage you to go to the Library of Congress Newspaper archive. You can see incredible examples of "fake news" and racist depictions in newspapers of that era. Corporations dictate what type of stories you can report on cable news, commentary is mistaken for fact. "Journalism" isn't dead and never existed in the way you think it did as pure fact. People are inherently biased and that bias will at time leak through into their work. But what is the other option? People suffer from confirmation bias in epidemic proportions. They only seek out information that they agree with. That is where the the real problem lies. Us, shuttering our eyelids to anything that makes us uncomfortable or shoulting "fake news" if it doesn't fit into our narrow world view. Journalism isn't dead, the consumers are just brain dead. So trust this ol' newspaper man. I may not always tell the truth, but I always try to - That Dickie Dales.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. - Terry Pratchett (Author, Humorist)