Media being for-profit and reporting news?

Journalistic integrity = Adverserial Principle(so you listen to both sides, and present the points-of-view to both sides), and you collect as much factual information as possible. Finally, you don't tell people what to think about it.

Reporting(today's news) = Publishing information without both sides, without facts.

And example: WADA.

WADA is still at their smear campaign against Russia, yesterday they published a statement that they didn't BELIEVE Russia was doing it's job, in tackling doping, and MAYBE was still sponsoring doping use. So, the conclusion was they PROBABLY are(notice how I highlighted all the words that make it gossip).

What isn't highlighted in that story:

The irony is of course that this last year WADA had a hack, and it showed US, and UK athletes getting 'therapeutic exemptions'(Bradley Wiggins being a public-example, he's worse than Lance Armstrong, but he's got an exemption) for medication that they don't actually have(in other words, performance-enhancing medication = doping, but they're allowed to, because apparently US, and UK Olympians are on the transplant-list).

Also WADA recently published the Doping-controls in Rio, and they missed 3 out of 5 bloodtests, almost all of US, and UK athletes, so apparently they're untested structurally, and systematically.

Which should've been the story, doping in sports isn't about science, or facts, it's political, and the organisation who's only job it is to regulate it WADA, is cheating, loosely interpreting Therapeutic-exemptions, favoring Countries, and singling out Countries they can't get real proof on, it's a political-mess, which should probably be replaced by a better organisation.

One that isn't sponsored by the specific Countries, because clearly they're paying for an advantage, and getting it.

It's the age-old difference between privatization (which ends up being for-profit) and government-run propaganda media (which ends up like a dictatorship). When America, for example, is not only a democracy but the nation who invented it, privatization of something so important as news is almost mandatory.

actually it isn't always for profit in the short term of actually selling papers

the long range goal is to try to make people believe your prefered narrative aka propaganda

take for example the US paper USAToday it doesn't make a profit it makes a loss but people read it (glad of a free newspaper ) and soak up the "news" like a sponge

It is painful for elections, they have little interest in "the truth" but rather rating and views of the public. Like Trump said this and Hillary said that, but not what lies both told. They use the facts, but often not the real truth.

Real NEWS reporting requires gathering facts, exposing the truth. Trust is seldom palatable to those higher up the food chain in positions of power, or to those who seek to glorify their own agenda.

Real investigative journalism is expensive, time consuming. And when the mass of consumers would rather squander their time and attention span on consuming vacuous celebrities, that's exactly what they get fed, RUBBISH.

This article may help.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45...

http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/11/21/media-struggles-e... "This is the first part of a multi-part WhoWhatWhy election autopsy.

It is ironic that the corporate media is now trying to figure out the rise of Donald Trump. After all, they are largely responsible for it by giving the president-elect a platform and not aggressively calling out his lies.

But the media’s journalistic malpractice goes back far beyond the Republican primary — to a time decades ago when so much of America’s Main Street economy unraveled as tens of thousands of factories were closed and jobs were shipped overseas.

At the time, these changes were all portrayed as part of a plan that would lead to a new world order of increasing planetary democracy and global prosperity. But what they have delivered is an increasingly unstable world with failed nation states, increasing wealth concentration, and an army of tens of millions of young men with nothing to do but resent their circumstance.

..........Since the Great Recession, the media went from benign neglect of Main Street to outright advocacy for a so-called global free trade system, even as it became clear that this had hollowed out America’s cities and led to the decimation of millions of American households.

We were made to believe that the integration of global markets was like gravity itself, something we dare not stop for fear of being set adrift.

But perhaps most important, the media maintained the fiction that when it came to the most critical issues for America’s working class — the economy, global trade, and US force projection overseas — the Republican and Democratic parties offered competing and opposing worldviews.

The populist revolt that catapulted Trump into the White House was years in the making, not just across the span of Barack Obama’s tenure, but going back at least to George W. Bush’s presidency."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/18/trumps-vict... "Red flags, red flags, red flags.

By recognizing we were not in a “normal” cycle, analysts could have realized that signals which are reliable in other elections might be misleading here. This should have significantly undermined their confidence in conventional metrics, and spurred them to seek out indicators which might track the idiosyncratic dynamics of this particular cycle more reliably."

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/11/comes-fake-... "Anyone with an ounce of sense and access to the Internet should be able to ferret out the truth and lies in these stories with some basic research. That these stories flourish is largely owing to the general gullibility, laziness and media illiteracy of the general public, which through its learned compliance rarely questions, challenges or confronts."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40... "Reagan administration pulled right-wing media executives Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife into a CIA-organized “perception management” operation which aimed Cold War-style propaganda at the American people in the 1980s, according to declassified U.S. government records."

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/21/whose... "And the proposal is especially troubling coming from the Times, with its checkered recent record of disseminating dangerous disinformation."