“The email, sent around 5:45 p.m. with the subject line ‘My manifesto,’ said lead azide devices were hidden in and around the Pennsylvania State Capitol and Pennsylvania Judicial Center ‘In the name of Palestine,’” according to the report.
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The report also says Capitol Police “told PennLive they are aware of the threat but will not be commenting on the incident at this time.”
Journalism is in such a fucking spiral these days.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this email was an Israeli stunt, TBH.
What makes this an indicator of journalism in decline?
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A story about politics leading to terrorism and bomb threats is a bad place to advertize articles about political satire writers. There is nothing funny about this.
I’m guessing the author of the article didn’t get to choose where the ad went in, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the ad was inserted automatically without anyone reviewing what went there.
That’s not about the state of journalism, that’s about what companies are willing to let advertisers get away with.
There are many reasons to criticize what is going on in American journalism, but this is not a very good one.
Journalism is more than just journalists recording information. It’s also about spreading that information. It being automatic doesn’t make it any less shameful, if anything far moreso, and especially bad that they use the same font and size as the rest of the page.
But that doesn’t reflect on the content of the story itself. Shouldn’t that be what really matters?
No, I didn’t get to read just the story by itself. The story itself was published in a format that was unnacceptable, imo. This is a symptom of the disease plaguing the modern world, automated and profit-first systems pushing and begging for another moment of our attention at the cost of composure and ethics.
So you’re criticizing the sad state of journalism without evaluating the actual journalism?
