• Fugtig Fisk@feddit.dk
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    This is why we dont have cool things any more… we make up our own knowledge just because it seems to fit

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        Why would I do extra research to prove my professor wrong instead of just listening to what they said for the test? Idk you’re right but also assuming a lot lmfao

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          Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the “news of the day” and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.

          Gosh, I dunno. Couldn’t have anything to do with the subject matter, maybe?

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            It’s also the reporting of facts and the fact is that I was told in school that is where it came from, which is what I originally said. I didn’t scour book and the internet over every claim every teacher said. My bad. But yes they still taught research? What a crazy thing to ask

            It’s also about accepting new information when you’re wrong. Which I have done. But you didn’t have to come at it the way you did? You can inform someone they are wrong without being hostile about it. How hard is it to say “hey actually that is incorrect” and then post snopes without being a dick?That’s reddit behavior.

            Edit: thought I was replying to person who corrected me

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              It’s ok. I was being a bit of a dick. Though I was aiming for a more sarcastic/funny(?) dick than a pedantic one. I get you though.Assuming you are of the age before the internet, we were taught long ago that authority figures were right and kids/students were wrong, and we grew into this accepting things at face value culture. Before the internet, we kind of had to as we had very little available to us (as kids) to counter what we were told.

              Anyway, that aside, back to the sarcastic dick thing, I was mostly poking at journalism as a whole. Not specifically you.

              But yeah, it’s all good.

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                Sorry I also replied to that when I woke up in the middle of the night to pee, so I wasn’t fully there. Not coherent enough to pick up on any sarcasm for sure.

                But it was during the internet but more in the advice animals dumb meme era. But I mainly majored in that to get my foot in the door other places. You’d be surprised, every class in every degree was reinforcing old school ethics and hammering the 24 hour networks. It was all about how to report facts without bias. Easy to make fun of now bc journalism kneels to capital but it was nothing to mock. Except my history of mass media professor I guess.

                But I wasn’t cut out for office work either way so now I’m a truck driver lmfao

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          Wait you’re sticking with that it actually happened not that you were joking? What f-tier journalism school did you go to? And they tested on the origin of the world news, already an insane thing to do to in a journalistic qualification, AND they expected a totally absurd and obviously false answer?

          Were you training to work at fox?

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            I’m not gonna lie, yeah I regurgitated something they taught in an undergrad mass media history class over a decade ago. It was incorrect info and I get that.

            Again, someone could have just plainly been like “yo dude that’s not right” and I would have been like “oh okay thank you” instead of everyone being like “JOURNALISM SCHOOL LMFAO fuck this guy”

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      NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH

      all in the same house

      Dammit. Now I need to listen to some Escape Club

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      I take issue with sports being in headline news practically every day, or multiple days per week at least.

      I have nothing against people enjoying sports, but it’s a hobby like any other, which I think is unreasonably thrust upon everyone else.

      Where is the eSports news, or competitive dancing, woodworking news, or as I’m sure we can all agree on Lemmy, what about my old electronic gadget of the week news?

      When I had The Guardian app, it was quite annoying that sports was lumped in with the push notifications for actual news.

      I’m just saying sports news ought to be opt-in like any other hobby.

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        I agree. I can’t stand that every restaurant or bar has to have a TV or 20 that are all tuned to talking heads blowing hot air over what sports guy #876,914 did last night, or what sports guy #1,456,888 will do tomorrow night.

        Even when it’s live sports, the broadcast is still more commercials than game, every square inch of the playing area is plastered with ads, plus the ads that are on the overlay, plus this instant replay is brought to you by A1 Hemorrhoid cream, from the Mega-Car Savings Plus Center, at beautiful Jack the Ambulance Chaser Stadium: “When you drive drunk, call Jack to blame on the innocent™!”

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        I’m gonna sound like an asshole, but that stuff isn’t in there because the people reading newspapers don’t care about those things

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          I should specify, it’s in the context of tv news and other headline notifications in news apps, or front page.

          I don’t read print newspapers, and have nothing against sports being covered in any news org, as long as it’s not put front and centre where you can’t escape it haha

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      Byzantine politics did have political parties and professional sports teams as literally the same thing, so it’s not completely insane as a concept.

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      Also weather wasn’t part of news (as in published news) at first, unless they were reporting what it was currently doing right now, because it predated forecasting by about 300 years.

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        Oh now, we’ve been predicting the weather far longer than you imagine. We just haven’t been very good at it until fairly recently.

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          When newspapers first started to be published they weren’t printed daily it was just whenever they felt like they had enough news. And it took days for them to create the paper and for them to print all of the copies so even very vague estimates of the weather would have been out of date by the time they were actually selling them.

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    From the Etymonline website:

    news (n.) late 14c., “new things,” plural of new (n.) “new thing” (see new (adj.)); after French nouvelles, which was used in Bible translations to render Medieval Latin nova (neuter plural) “news,” literally “new things.”

    The English word was construed as singular at least from the 1560s, but it sometimes still was regarded as plural 17c.-19c. The odd and doubtful construction probably accounts for the absurd folk-etymology (attested by 1640 but originally, and in 18c. usually, in jest-books) that claims it to be an abbreviation of north east south west, as though “information from all quarters of the compass.”

    The meaning “tidings, intelligence of something that has lately taken place” is from early 15c. The meaning “radio or television program presenting current events” is from 1923. Bad news in the extended sense of “unpleasant person or situation” is from 1926. Expression no news, good news can be traced to 1640s. Expression news to me “something I did not know” is from 1889.

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      Thank you! Their reply was funny, but it would have been helpful to have at least the basic definition there too if they’re going to respond to that person lol

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    I always assumed it was news as plural. Here’s a list of new’s. This is new, that is new.

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      Plural for “new” was my presumption as well. That means a news article can actually be called a “new”.

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    How many people are like this? I hope it’s way less than a percent but experience tells me it’s a lot more. 😭

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    Of course we all know that “news” stands for Never EVER Work Safe.

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        Yes, but they got it from earlier companies, like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

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          The movie dramatisation of the triangle factory showed the awful conditions. Trying to make everyone clock out while the building was burning down around them. Madness.

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    Idk if all the people in this comment section are joking, it means things that are new. New information about the world.