DOGE was never about cutting spending and I hate when the media frames it that way. I don’t know what they teach in journalism school but pretending to not know what time it is has to be a required course. It’s like when they use “free speech absolutist” (even ironically) to describe Elon Musk. He was never that and if you believed it and are disappointed, I hope you were just not paying attention. Motherfucker was being sued for discrimination and promising flight attendants horses to get his dick sucked and people act like he betrayed his formerly-held values.
I don’t know what they teach in journalism school
It’s not what they don’t teach. It’s that what they do teach is immediately and unobjectionally discarded by the oligarch paying their salary.
If something doesn’t benefit the ownership or the ideals promoted by the ownership, it won’t be published. If it’s in opposition to the ownership or their ability to retain wealth and power, the journalists behind it won’t be employed any longer. Outside of publicly-funded or independent journalism, journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting are practically dead.
This is what happens when news and media are consolidated into a few large conglomerates owned by a wealthy few.
Are you talking about this article specifically? It seems like this article is taking the promise Trump made and following all the dollars to prove exactly how that promise was bullshit. This seems like journalism at work.
No. Accounting for it all is actual journalism. Pretending they’re trying to save money when they’re openly trying to replace professionals with loyalists is journalistic malpractice.
If you read this article and thought, “journalistic malpractice”, I think you gotta reset your understanding of what journalism is. They can’t just say “oh, this smells like bullshit so we’re going to write articles about how it’s bullshit”. If that’s what they did, then there is no difference between journalism and lemmy comments.
They have to actually research the facts surrounding the claims like a scientist would. Start from the assumption that what they’re saying is true, then follow the numbers to come to a conclusion. Now the conclusion is not based some feeling, it is based on actual data.
We can now say not only did it smell like bullshit, but thanks to these journalists we can identify exactly how it is bullshit.
