In a world where every person is free to share their opinion directly to a mass audience; do we really need pundits anymore?
In a world where every person is free to share their opinion directly to a mass audience; do we really need pundits anymore?
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We need experts that are knowledgeable on issues who can put them in context for lay readers.
In the past, those were often beat reporters, but academics can fit that role too.
With the collapse of traditional media
hegemoniescompanies we've lost beat reporters, so we have to rely on third party experts. Of course, there are problems with that: if they're owned by bad actors, then they can spread misleading narratives.I'm not sure who fills that role now. Whoever can tweet the most convincingly at journalists? Whoever makes the sexiest YouTube explainer?
😂^(we're screwed)
I don't think the bad actors are coming from online. The bad actors are the ones who call themselves news and amplify a message bought and paid for by corporations. They then say, it's only editorializing. The news happens only from '6:15-6:17.'
Agreed - traditional media and online commentary both suffer from this problem.
We need a way for beat reporters to get paid for their work. Sadly that doesn't really exist right now.
I wouldn't say they don't exist. Podcasting is a legitimate platform.