Journalism is beyond salvation, and journalists are beyond salvation. Even when they talk about checking their own hidden assumptions, they make the same fucking hidden assumptions.
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A lot of time and energy is spent by news organizations trying to convey that they know better than their audience about what matters, about why it matters, in trying to convince people that something matters, rather than listening to people and hearing what they think matters, and then rigorously reporting the context.
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The NEXT paragraph:
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For example, if we think about climate change, I think a lot of news organizations have spent significant time and money trying to convince people that climate change matters and that it’s happening. That is really important, because climate change as an issue is important. But that kind of agenda-setting role falls short when it is a substitute for listening to what people do care about, which is safety. Reporting about changes to climate and more frequent disasters in the context of safety is more likely to be effective in terms of getting people information that they need to meet their goals.
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In other words, We should avoid telling people what to think. THEREFORE we should tell them what to think.
Sneaky. She used the word safety. When normal people say safety they’re talking about crime and homelessness. She decided they should be talking about climate instead of crime.
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