• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The purpose of news is to lay out the facts, not tell me how to feel about something.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      That’s a overly reductive. News organizations have a public duty that goes beyond just throwing out facts and letting society sort through the mess.

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              1 year ago

              There’s a responsibility to consider the impact of your reporting. See for example the SPJ code of ethics under “minimize harm”

              https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

              Journalism ethics is a very broad topic, but it’s more than just about reporting facts. It’s about serving your purpose as the fourth estate.

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                  1 year ago

                  this assumes a moral authority, which can be dangerous

                  This barely even means anything. What do you really mean?

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                    moral authority, or rather thinking you have the moral right to do something is the cause of all strive. Was the cause of the religious wars… even Hitler thought he had a “moral duty” to eradicate people from the gene pool to make a better society. You can’t assume moral authority; you will end up hurting people. It happens again and again, everything from an abusive spouse who thinks his wife is bad quality X and should be beat into a better person, to parents abusing their kids to have them “learn” otherwise they won’t be tough enough for the world, to the horrible recidivism rate in countries where prisoners are considered subhuman because they’re “immoral”, to every serial killer feeling justified to torture people in their messed up fabric of how they think the world works. Morality is a trojan horse for criminality. It treats others as subhuman, abdicates their ability to choose, and then causes arrogance in the “ruling elite” which then ends in slaughter of their own people, starting with the minorities until society realizes, “wait, how did we get here?”