{"id":8709,"date":"2019-09-26T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2019-09-26T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:15:08","slug":"journalism-journalism-professor-acknowledges-that-reporting-is-about-finding-negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/09\/26\/journalism-journalism-professor-acknowledges-that-reporting-is-about-finding-negativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism: Journalism professor acknowledges that reporting is\u00a0 about finding negativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This in regards to the <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/09\/25\/journalism-we-must-take-positive-stories-and-always-twist-them-to-negativity\/\">Des Moines Register taking down a $1+ million dollar fundraiser over two tweets he made when he was 16 years old<\/a>, 8 years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cancel culture was another subject that impacted the chain of events.&#8221;This is the kind of the culture we live in,&#8221; Snider said. &#8220;Someone gets big for whatever reason and instantly people look for that negative thing to bring them down.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/expert-says-carson-king-events-show-how-fast-things-spread\/29236231\">Expert says Carson King events show &#8216;how fast things spread&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we now know, the reporter who wrote the take down story had a social media history with much worse and more offensive posts than the story subject. 2 days later the Des Moines Register has still not acknowledged the reporter by name, merely saying that a &#8220;staffer&#8221; is under investigation. The paper says it is &#8220;routine&#8221; to check the social media posts of all news subjects but does not check the posts of their own employees.<\/p>\n<p>I am so old I remember that just yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/09\/24\/politicians-pundits-used-refrain-publicly-attacking-kids-not-anymore\/\">the media said it was wrong and hurtful for adults to question the background of a 16 year old<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Capture-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8711\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Capture-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why the double standard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so old I remember that just yesterday the media said it was wrong and hurtful for adults to question the background of a 16 year old&#8230; talk about inconsistency!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-mental-health","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}