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Journalism’s challenge | Inquirer Opinion

Journalism’s challenge
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:40 AM June 08, 2022

Everywhere around the world, journalists’ traditional role as gatekeepers of truth is being challenged.

This challenge comes from a trend of decentralization, which is seeing more and more information, factual or not, disseminated to audiences at ever-increasing speeds and through ever-multiplying channels that grow in number faster than media practitioners can keep up with.

Where there once was a near unified flow of news from various outlets that subscribe to norms of professional conduct, there is now a cacophony of voices and images going in all directions catering to—and amplifying—every cognitive bias that every individual news consumer has.

And where the mainstream media once controlled public narrative, the power has shifted toward purveyors of information on the internet in general, and social media in particular. Most of these people are armed with nothing more than an opinion and a mobile phone, but have succeeded in growing their following and reaching audiences to a level that rivals or even surpasses many of their counterparts who are schooled and trained in journalism.

These disseminators of information on social media have become, in a way, formidable.

Given this landscape, last week’s announcement by Press Secretary-designate Trixie Cruz-Angeles that the incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. will prioritize the accreditation of “vloggers” (a portmanteau of “video bloggers’’ who publish their output on personal social media channels and websites) understandably raised the hackles of traditional media practitioners who have, in recent years, been finding the professional space rapidly shrinking from under their feet.

To be sure, it is the prerogative of every administration to choose the methods by which they will convey important government policy to the public. There is some merit to the complaint of every sitting president that the media tends to focus on negative news while neglecting the equally important task of relaying positive developments to the public. Part of the traditional media’s important role in a society is to act as the watchdog against government corruption and abuse of power, but populist leaders have regarded the media as “enemy” because of critical reporting.

In the interest of attracting a wider audience, many media practitioners have fallen victim to a cycle of scandal inflation, competing to publish the next scoop about the next controversy—preferably bigger than the previous one—thus helping make the audience blasé to bad news. Most importantly, it cannot be denied that some members of the traditional media have abused the position entrusted to them by the public as gatekeepers of information.

But there are inherent dangers in this proposed accommodation of vloggers, bloggers, and so-called influencers by the Palace. Most of them lack the rigorous discipline, training, and experience necessary to become impartial conduits of information. Moreover, most vloggers produce content to earn huge revenues, while professional journalists are paid their salaries by their news organizations after complying with the rules and norms of the profession.

The dangers are especially acute when vloggers are elevated to a position of influence that will allow them to relay government policy straight from the source (in the guise of news coverage) without the benefit of training and skills that journalists have in terms of vetting information, digging deeper and wider to get to the truth, and contextualizing or helping the people make sense of what’s happening around them.

The ideal situation would be for the presidential palace to give equal access to journalists and its preferred bloggers, vloggers, and influencers, rather than prioritize the latter over the duly accredited reporters covering the Palace, as the incoming president’s team has done during the recently concluded election campaign.

Bloggers, vloggers, and influencers have every right to have direct access to the President and key public officials to be able to disseminate information to their audiences. So do journalists. Let their output be made equally for audiences to consume and to decide—through a painful process of trial and error over time—whom to trust more.

The current landscape is a challenge for all practitioners of journalism to address the shortcomings of their profession, real or perceived, while sharpening their skills in delivering the news accurately, rapidly, and impartially to the public. In an age when disinformation and fake news often have more currency than the truth, and when the government itself seeks to undermine freedom and democracy, the traditional media must continue to persevere to keep the public better informed.

Winning back the audience to go to credible sources of information is the ultimate test that Filipino journalists face in these difficult times.

[Ry_Tower]

When your spokesperson is a person like trixie with all her past violations, taasng standard nga naman na kahit vloggers magmumukhang santo.

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[Ry_Tower]

Not all Traditional journalism has the right ethics. Mayroon din bayaran.

I didn't generalize naman. Obviously naman na gaya ng manila times na mainstream media eh my false ethics talaga.

Diba? Obvious naman si Manila Times eh. Kaya kahit mainstream media meron din naman Obvious na bayaran.

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[Ry_Tower]

More like false ethics.

So you're implying na mas marning journalist ang unethical at unprofessional? What is your proof?

Ilan ba kaso ng liber vs journalist ang nanalo or natalo for example. May ganung list ba?

Presumption naman ata eh mas marami matino kesa loko-loko or bias. Kahit sa kapulisan na lang nga laging nasasabi na meron bad apples pero try mo sabihin na karamihan sa kanila unethical, ewan lang kung ano reaction nila.



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[uls]

gimme a sign mainstream media is losing influence

when they write something like this

Journalism’s challenge | Inquirer Opinion

Journalism’s challenge
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:40 AM June 08, 2022

Everywhere around the world, journalists’ traditional role as gatekeepers of truth is being challenged.

This challenge comes from a trend of decentralization, which is seeing more and more information, factual or not, disseminated to audiences at ever-increasing speeds and through ever-multiplying channels that grow in number faster than media practitioners can keep up with.

Where there once was a near unified flow of news from various outlets that subscribe to norms of professional conduct, there is now a cacophony of voices and images going in all directions catering to—and amplifying—every cognitive bias that every individual news consumer has.

And where the mainstream media once controlled public narrative, the power has shifted toward purveyors of information on the internet in general, and social media in particular. Most of these people are armed with nothing more than an opinion and a mobile phone, but have succeeded in growing their following and reaching audiences to a level that rivals or even surpasses many of their counterparts who are schooled and trained in journalism.

These disseminators of information on social media have become, in a way, formidable.

Given this landscape, last week’s announcement by Press Secretary-designate Trixie Cruz-Angeles that the incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. will prioritize the accreditation of “vloggers” (a portmanteau of “video bloggers’’ who publish their output on personal social media channels and websites) understandably raised the hackles of traditional media practitioners who have, in recent years, been finding the professional space rapidly shrinking from under their feet.

To be sure, it is the prerogative of every administration to choose the methods by which they will convey important government policy to the public. There is some merit to the complaint of every sitting president that the media tends to focus on negative news while neglecting the equally important task of relaying positive developments to the public. Part of the traditional media’s important role in a society is to act as the watchdog against government corruption and abuse of power, but populist leaders have regarded the media as “enemy” because of critical reporting.

In the interest of attracting a wider audience, many media practitioners have fallen victim to a cycle of scandal inflation, competing to publish the next scoop about the next controversy—preferably bigger than the previous one—thus helping make the audience blasé to bad news. Most importantly, it cannot be denied that some members of the traditional media have abused the position entrusted to them by the public as gatekeepers of information.

But there are inherent dangers in this proposed accommodation of vloggers, bloggers, and so-called influencers by the Palace. Most of them lack the rigorous discipline, training, and experience necessary to become impartial conduits of information. Moreover, most vloggers produce content to earn huge revenues, while professional journalists are paid their salaries by their news organizations after complying with the rules and norms of the profession.

The dangers are especially acute when vloggers are elevated to a position of influence that will allow them to relay government policy straight from the source (in the guise of news coverage) without the benefit of training and skills that journalists have in terms of vetting information, digging deeper and wider to get to the truth, and contextualizing or helping the people make sense of what’s happening around them.

The ideal situation would be for the presidential palace to give equal access to journalists and its preferred bloggers, vloggers, and influencers, rather than prioritize the latter over the duly accredited reporters covering the Palace, as the incoming president’s team has done during the recently concluded election campaign.

Bloggers, vloggers, and influencers have every right to have direct access to the President and key public officials to be able to disseminate information to their audiences. So do journalists. Let their output be made equally for audiences to consume and to decide—through a painful process of trial and error over time—whom to trust more.

The current landscape is a challenge for all practitioners of journalism to address the shortcomings of their profession, real or perceived, while sharpening their skills in delivering the news accurately, rapidly, and impartially to the public. In an age when disinformation and fake news often have more currency than the truth, and when the government itself seeks to undermine freedom and democracy, the traditional media must continue to persevere to keep the public better informed.

Winning back the audience to go to credible sources of information is the ultimate test that Filipino journalists face in these difficult times.

[uls]

gimme a sign mainstream media is losing to alt media

when they write something like this

Planet web | Inquirer Opinion

Planet web
By: Joel Ruiz Butuyan - *inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM June 09, 2022

The world as we know it has changed because of an alternate universe that has emerged in our midst. That alternate universe is the world wide web. The web has upturned, reconfigured, and restructured so many aspects of our lives.

For better, the web has revolutionized the way we communicate, do business, and shop. It has opened the floodgates to a vast ocean of information and made it available at our fingertips. It has given voice to the previously voiceless members of society.

For worse, it has twisted our politics, warped our morals, and distorted our very sense of right and wrong. It has either lowered or vanished many of our social and cultural standards. It has changed the faces of our role models and the character of leaders we idealize.

Why have all these happened? To help us understand, we should imagine the web as an entirely new planet that has come to exist side by side with planet Earth. Unlike Earth, planet web has no government that acts as the overseer and law enforcer. Governments on Earth attempt to impose rules on planet web, but their presence on the web is hardly felt, and they’re ineffective as regulators of behavior on planet web.

What substitutes for a government on planet web are private companies that perform minimum public regulation not for public welfare, but as a means to enhance profitability. These include social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube. These pseudo-governments, however, merely impose slap-on-the-wrist punishments that hardly deter criminal and immoral behavior.

What prevails on planet web is the Law of the Jungle. Cyberbullies abound and they regularly engage in a frenzy of misbehavior to maltreat unsuspecting netizens. Sinister personalities fake and multiply their identities to peddle disinformation and harass. Dubious characters with influence and capital manipulate public opinion on planet web as means to accumulate more power and money. Virtually all of the wayward behavior and immoral conduct that happen on planet web go unpunished as crimes. Libel charges are resorted to at times, but these instances are infinitesimally small to serve as deterrence. An environment that allows misbehavior and immoral conduct thrives on planet web.

As a result, it is a haven for manipulators, scammers, and exploiters.

Planet web has also provided platforms for extremists, crackpots, chauvinists, fanatics, and the like to publicize their views and form groups to promote their beliefs. On planet Earth, these characters can hardly have a forum to publicize their controversial beliefs because they can’t get past the gatekeepers of societal norms, like the traditional media, academic institutions, and civil society groups. But on planet web, they can easily create a public stage to broadcast scandalous and indecent views. And with algorithm schemes employed by social media platforms, these provocative opinions are assured of an audience of netizens who share the same beliefs.

The emergence of planet web has enabled people to create dual personalities. People maintain their decent selves on planet Earth and migrate their indecent personas to planet web. The result is the growing culture of rudeness and intolerance on planet web. Groups of people maintain their decent personas on planet web, but they’re increasingly being pushed to the sidelines because virtuousness feels unexciting compared to provocative beliefs in a frontier zone like planet web.

The unhealthy culture that’s evolving on planet web has started to spread on planet Earth. Norms of civility, excellence, democratic ideals, and other libertarian values are under attack on planet Earth. Politics has been compromised by wicked practices nurtured on the web in an increasing number of countries.

Unless democratic governments, professional associations, religious institutions, the academe, and civil society groups come together to push for societal norms to take hold on planet web, planet Earth stands at risk of becoming a colonized extension of the increasingly undesirable way of life that’s evolving on planet web.

[uls]

for decades, mainstream media basked in their power to influence people

they're losing that power and they're panicking

Part of the traditional media’s important role in a society is to act as the watchdog against government corruption and abuse of power

^^^

and who is watching the media when they abuse their power?


WE ARE

[Flipo]

gimme a sign mainstream media is losing to alt media

when they write something like this

Yung daming nabudol ng mga troll farms na ang mainstream media daw ay bias at
nauwi sa ganito![emoji23]

[emoji841] ABS CBN - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] GMA 7 - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] NEWS5 - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] INQUIRER - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] PHILSTAR - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] BULLETIN - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] RAPPLER - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] CNN - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] BBC - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] GOOGLE - NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE
[emoji841] GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORD - Fake News
[emoji840] MY LOLA SAID - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] MY LOLO SAID - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] MARITES SAID - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] TIKTOK - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] SMNI (Quiboloy) - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] THINKING PINOY PAGE - RELIABLE
[emoji840] VLOGGER NA FEELING JOURNALIST NA LOYAL TO YOUR IDOL - RELIABLE!
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[uls]

masyado naging makapangyarihan ang media

inabuso nila

karma ito

#celebratingthedeclineoftradmedia

[Ry_Tower]

Yung daming nabudol ng mga troll farms na ang mainstream media daw ay bias at
nauwi sa ganito![emoji23]

[emoji841] ABS CBN - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] GMA 7 - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] NEWS5 - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] INQUIRER - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] PHILSTAR - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] BULLETIN - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] RAPPLER - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] CNN - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] BBC - Bias/fake news
[emoji841] GOOGLE - NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE
[emoji841] GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORD - Fake News
[emoji840] MY LOLA SAID - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] MY LOLO SAID - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] MARITES SAID - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] TIKTOK - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] SMNI (Quiboloy) - RELIABLE!
[emoji840] THINKING PINOY PAGE - RELIABLE
[emoji840] VLOGGER NA FEELING JOURNALIST NA LOYAL TO YOUR IDOL - RELIABLE!
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Nakalimutan mo yung PCOO na golden truth kapag sila naglabas ng news. Sobrang legit at hindi biased sa kahit anong bagay.

Pero bakit kaya ang daming FB accounts yung naba-ban? Siguro biased din si FB.