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You’re not grasping that I understand what you’re trying to say.
What you’re also not grasping is that it’s a journalists job to report the news. They aren’t supposed to fully embrace their biases or push a narrative that they prefer, or ignore newsworthy stories because it doesn’t align with their politics.
The fact that they are doing that is why they are TERRIBLE JOURNALISTS
I just read a headline on lemmy a few minutes ago that read: “Tesla cars bursting into flames in Florida following hurricane”
The exact headline is “Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia”
https://www.techspot.com/news/100032-teslas-bursting-flames-florida-after-flooded-during-hurricane.html
Now read that and use your brain, because what the author of that ‘piece’ is trying to do is obvious. They are trying to make a statement about Elon Musk by attacking Tesla because they disagree with Musks politics.
That’s not simply having an unconscious bias. That is a very very concious bias and a deliberately misleading headline to push the author’s opinion of Musks politics and to try to smear his companies cars.
When you actually read the article, it becomes pretty clear that anything with lithium ion batteries is dangerous when mixed with salt water. Any EV’s, golf carts, etc etc
But the author deliberately wrote in the headline that Tesla’s are bursting into flames. Misleading the readers of the headline to believe that the issue is with Tesla cars, without mentioning any other brand of car or vehicle that has the exact same dangers.
Now that’s just being a bad journalist, leading with a headline like that. That’s nothing like you’re claiming that’s unavoidable or to be expected.
Here is another article written without the bias of Musk being involved:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/electric-vehicles-exposed-to-saltwater-can-burst-into-flames/ar-AA1g7ny2
Floridians battered by Hurricane Idalia this week may not have expected another threat — that floodwaters could cause their cars to suddenly burst into flames.
Yet that's exactly what happened when two electric vehicles caught fire after being submerged in saltwater churned up by the storm. Firefighters in Palm Harbor, Florida, cited the incidents, both of which involved Teslas, in warning owners that their rechargeable car batteries could combust if exposed to saltwater.
Can you see the difference here? Just stick to the facts and don’t try to push your narrative on your readers. I’m also pretty sure both of these authors got paid for writing these articles, so get out of here with your ‘journalists won’t write actual news stories because they don’t get paid for that’ shit.
I mean you can find these types of stories posted all day long on Lemmy.
Have higher standards for journalists and quit simping for these hacks.
Examples of bad journalists does not justify your position of declaring all journalism so terrible that you will not even read reporting about issues you deeply care about from diverse sources.
You're lying to me. I'm done.
This is just you closing your eyes, sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling “lalalallalalalalalla”
Later, man