Pointing out things I hadn’t known…

( I’d known about the reported-Russian-losses being “fantasy”, according to some of the more objective sites, hadn’t known about the other stuff ).

I’d certainly require Journalism to have professional standards ( not the shit pseudo-journalism/propaganda that’s now normal: you hold to truth, XOR you label yourself propaganda/entertainment, in my view…

same as there’s a difference between “police services” and honest community policing, or a difference between gov’t for the people, future-generations, economy, and country-as-a-whole, vs oligarchy… )

Unless you’ve got Journalism, an actual Justice ( not mere-legalism ) department, etc… corruption’s already won.

Journalism needs to be a required-competency for at hard-minimum 20% of the population graduating high-school.

Just entrusting any country to money’s “management” of “journalism” … that’s national suicide.

& accountable-journalism means that propagandists need to be prosecuted, need to be removed from the journalism market.

Having professional-standards looks, to me, like a requirement for journalism as a profession.

( & NYT would fail, as would most outfits, nowadays )

Put fines/costs on the pushers-of-bias gaslighting about being journalism…

that kind of thing…

< shrug >

The alternative is the hopeless bullshit we’ve now got.

Accountability, Responsibility, & to the limit of those, then the authority.

Another problem is that there needs to be a sufficient amount of the journalism-market done by independents, to keep the organizations honest…

whatever: ideologues’ll never tolerate their propaganda to be unseated, so I expect nothing to change in our world…

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