{"id":461232,"date":"2022-06-11T00:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/corporate-media-may-at-last-be-waking-up-to-reality\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:56:31","slug":"corporate-media-may-at-last-be-waking-up-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/corporate-media-may-at-last-be-waking-up-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"#Corporate media may at last be waking up to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bb96b2e2fd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bb96b2e2fd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/corporate-media-may-at-last-be-waking-up-to-reality\/#%E2%80%9CCorporate_media_may_at_last_be_waking_up_to_reality%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Corporate media may at last be waking up to reality&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCorporate_media_may_at_last_be_waking_up_to_reality%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Corporate media may at last be waking up to reality&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Is corporate <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> finally getting a clue?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post fired reporter Felicia Sonmez after a days-long public furor over a colleague retweeting a goofy joke. <\/p>\n<p>She portrayed her crusade \u2014 which called out numerous colleagues and continued for days after her initial target got a month-long suspension \u2014 as an effort against systemic oppression.\u00a0But her <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>room bosses (and presumably owner Jeff Bezos) finally had enough of her narcissistic theater and defiance of their clear social-media policy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then take media giant Gannett\u2019s decision to scale back on its opinion pages company-wide. The publisher of USA Today and papers across the nation, say a committee of editors, found that readers<strong> <\/strong>\u201cperceive us as having a biased agenda\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t believe we have the expertise to tell anyone what to think on most issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the big guys realized that the journalist class is deeply out of touch with the people who actually read papers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even CNN \u2014 the network that turned Trump hysteria into a brand \u2014 seemingly has gotten the drift. New boss Chris Licht is reportedly taking a hard look at the partisan personalities that drove coverage during the Trump years, in advance of reining them in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t take a journalism degree to see why: People turn to journalists for <em>facts<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-nypost-medium-post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-03.jpg?w=322\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22616693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=644 644w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=483 483w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 161w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\"\/><figcaption>Sonmez came under fire last week after publicly her critiquing her colleague Dave Weigel, another reporter at The Washington Post. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter \/ @feliciasonmez<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-02.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Chris Licht \" class=\"wp-image-22616770\" width=\"293\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=586 586w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=293 293w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=146 146w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/media-opinion-facts-op-ed-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\"\/><figcaption>Chris Licht is looking into CNN\u2019s partisan personalities.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for TIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>They don\u2019t need endless explainers and tendentious warnings about \u201ccontext.\u201d They don\u2019t want self-admiring moral crusaders to shout alarmist nonsense about racial justice and Russian collusion, COVID and critical race theory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re more than perceptive enough to notice when those same crusaders try to stifle stories that make the politicos they <em>do <\/em>favor look bad (as with inflation, or when The New York Times buries the Kavanaugh assassination plot on page A20).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reporters and their editors have a simple, very difficult job: to find out the truth and publish it.<\/p>\n<p>When the industry became convinced that its job was to tell readers what to think, and how, and when, it started to destroy its own credibility. The vast majority of Americans now have little to no trust in the media to report the news accurately and fairly, per Gallup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And rightly so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sooner journos get back to their roots in actual news, the quicker that trust will come back. So good for The Washington Post, Gannett and Licht. But they have a lot more work ahead.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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