Musk’s approach to ensuring full transparency on X is a significant step toward holding power accountable. By allowing users to freely share evidence of election fraud, the platform is ensuring that no potential misconduct can be easily hidden or ignored. This commitment to… pic.twitter.com/AM2n4CCn21
— Torsten Prochnow (@TorstenProchnow) October 20, 2024
Through X, Musk has allowed citizens to perform the service that journalists and the press used to perform in America.
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‘Fat crazy lady’ wins a crucial victory for citizen journalists
Jonathan Turley:
“…As I discuss in my book, “The Indispensable Right, journalism is in free fall in the U.S. as citizens reject the establishment media as biased and unreliable. For years, journalism schools have taught students that they have to abandon objectivity and neutrality for advocacy.
Advocacy journalism is now the norm. Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has declared that “all journalism is activism.” Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, similarly announced that “Objectivity has got to go.”
After a series of interviews with more than 75 media leaders, Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, explained that objectivity is viewed as a trap and reporters “feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work.”…”