I wonder why its so hard for journalism institutions to find someone with an appropriate background to cover certain high-volume beats.
It’s particularly egregious with military and science stuff, where it becomes painfully obvious that whoever is doing the reporting just has no clue how any of the stuff they’re reporting on actually works. Seems to be it’d be a worthwhile investment to hire someone with at least some sort of science degree or military training to cover beats that are that high volume.
It’s not like they go with completely ignorant randos to do their sports reporting, the sports reporters usually know some stuff about the rules of the sport and how its played.
Because they won’t pay what someone actually qualified for the task would require. They still get their clicks because people want to stay informed, and yet also do so for cheap. Late stage capitalism has everybody attempting to wring value out of every last penny in order just to keep afloat in a world where the absurdly wealthy see average people as just pawns in a game the one-percenters are driven to “win” no matter what.
I wonder why its so hard for journalism institutions to find someone with an appropriate background to cover certain high-volume beats.
It’s particularly egregious with military and science stuff, where it becomes painfully obvious that whoever is doing the reporting just has no clue how any of the stuff they’re reporting on actually works. Seems to be it’d be a worthwhile investment to hire someone with at least some sort of science degree or military training to cover beats that are that high volume.
It’s not like they go with completely ignorant randos to do their sports reporting, the sports reporters usually know some stuff about the rules of the sport and how its played.
Because they won’t pay what someone actually qualified for the task would require. They still get their clicks because people want to stay informed, and yet also do so for cheap. Late stage capitalism has everybody attempting to wring value out of every last penny in order just to keep afloat in a world where the absurdly wealthy see average people as just pawns in a game the one-percenters are driven to “win” no matter what.
You say military because that is what you know about.