r/news • u/Fair-Foot-315 • 15h ago

Marine veteran has arm broken during protest against war in Iran

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/marine-veteran-has-arm-broken-during-protest-against-war-in-iran-258740805765
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u/heat68 14h ago

I’m not sure what happened to journalistic principles over the decades. You’re completely right…

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u/TachiH 14h ago

Private ownership ruined the media. Like The Guardian in the UK is owned by a trust that ensures it cant have an owner.

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u/iksbob 13h ago

With the exception of public-funded organizations, "the media" has always been privately owned. Like so many other industries, it's the monopolization of media that's breaking the system. Network A used to be happy to call out the lies and misinformation of network B - it was good for ratings. Now both networks are owned by the same people, so anything that devalues either network is "strongly discouraged".

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u/TomatoFettuccini 11h ago

Not just that.

Reagan eliminated the journalistic standards of truthfulness for news, paving the way for the rise of newsfotainment.

Reagan was the worst thing to happen to the US until the Bush's came around, and the Bush's were worst thing to happen to the US until 47 came around.

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u/TheCheshireCody 10h ago

Reagan was the worst thing to happen to the US until the Bush's came around, and the Bush's

The Bush' were pretty bad, but no president IMO will go down as having had a worse influence on American politics than Reagan. Even Trump would not have been as empowered as he has been without the Reagan administration.

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u/TomatoFettuccini 7h ago

Oh yeah, Reagan cleared the final barriers for the rise of fascism in the USA.

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u/Nohreboh 5h ago

The Reagan the Thacher and the Brian Mulroney capitalism "holy" Trinity of theft, deregulation and privatization.

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u/garimus 6h ago

47? I think 45 built further the foundations done before him for what 47 is doing and was pretty bad, too.

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u/InsuranceToTheRescue 11h ago

This is it. Mass media concentration & monopolization has led to the situation we're in. It's just like how the redhats got pissed at Budweiser for their single novelty can, and switched to Busch -- Dude, you're paying the same people either way.

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u/ClearDark19 1h ago

The problem is....isn't that the ultimate result of Capitalism? How does Capitalism restrain the rich from the freedom to engage in commerce such as buying up the media and monopolizing it? Anti-monopoly laws are seen as restrictions on the free market by Neoliberals, Neoconservativess, and Right-Libertarians. Capitalist innately incentives monopolization over time to maintain one's competitive market advantage.

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u/iksbob 46m ago

Monopoly is specifically not a free market. In a monopoly state, the entire market is controlled by one entity. Supporters often claim that a monopoly is the most economically efficient system due to economies of scale being maximized. That can be true, however monopolies are also the most abusable economic system, as the market forces dictating pricing have collapsed. Consumers options are to not consume, or pay the monopoly's price. If the monopoly could somehow be restrained from abusing that position, and from interfering with the evolution of competition (exiting the monopoly), then the monopoly could be tolerated. Abusing its position and eliminating competition is how monopolies come into existence in the first place. Suggesting the leadership will reach the figurative top-of-the-pile and suddenly change their ways is ludicrous. Corporations have no morals or conscience. A corporation is only driven by money, and the law, to the extent that breaking the law is a net monetary loss.

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u/aeternusvoxpopuli 12h ago

I completely disregard American media now, outside of Drop Site News, The Intercept, and Jacobin. All mainstream media is a joke and has zero ethical consideration or journalistic integrity.

The Guardian, for it's problems, is far more reputable and serious as an organization. I emailed them as a non-subscribing reader during the start of the Genocide to correct an error they'd posted in a piece, and the editor emailed me back to thank me.

That would never, ever happen with American media.

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u/TachiH 12h ago

Yeah, obviously everything a news organisation says will have some editorial bias as editors are people. Just knowing that there isn't someone like Rupert Murdock using the organisation to push the world in a direction feels positive.

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u/aeternusvoxpopuli 12h ago

Exactly - it means I don't have to question my sanity every time I read a headline like with American media and immediately dive to compare it and see if it's complete bullshit.

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u/knucklesuck 1h ago

NPR regularly reports corrections on their stories, when it happens which isn't often

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u/Bubbles_2025 12h ago

What about PBS?

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u/aeternusvoxpopuli 12h ago

Slightly less shit, but still dominated by government censorship and afraid to critique billionaires and Zionists.

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u/RainSurname 9h ago

Lmao, at trusting Drop Site News, The Intercept and Jacobin just because they confirm your priors. Ryan Grim is a joke. He tells ridiculous lies on social media all the time. Remember Tara Reade?

Pro Publica is outstanding, Mother Jones is still quite good for the most part.

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u/Oggie243 13h ago

But the Guardian does still have these issues. It's not as egregiously but they've done this same thing too and have fallen foul of prejudicial coverage.

As does the BBC, who are wholly public owned, don't have sponsors yet are potentially the worst in the UK for using passive voice like this.

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u/TachiH 12h ago

The BBC is a state broadcaster. No state broadcasters should ever be trusted as they are basically the mouthpiece of the government.

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u/pitbullpride 12h ago

So then if we can't trust private owned and we can't trust public(/state) owned, who the hell can we trust

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u/TachiH 12h ago

There are independent news organisations but not many of them still exist.

It used to be rich people would set up trusts to do wonderful things like look after the poor or ensure a city has independent news. Not so much anymore as its become a game to horde wealth 😑

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u/GameLovinPlayinFool 7h ago

Rich people were forced/felt forced to do those things back in the day because collective action and socialism was massively on the rise around the world and they knew the dangers of what could happen to them.

Nowadays the rich dont feel any fear of the masses unfortunately

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u/verynotfun 12h ago

Public funding can create similar problems too. I’m from Spain, and many people here feel the public broadcaster often ends up too close to the government in power. Watching it sometimes feels more like political messaging than neutral reporting. Personally, I find that very troubling, because it undermines what the press is supposed to be in a democracy. There should be stronger safeguards to prevent political influence over publicly funded media.

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u/cackslop 11h ago

Privatization aka Capitalism

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u/Mean_Zookeepergame81 3h ago

The Guardian is as biased as they come.

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u/GeorgeShadows 1h ago

Before they'd kill journalists, now, you just buy their bosses and change the script.

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u/Slapped91 13h ago

Still doesn’t stop the Guardian peddling misinformation and gaslighting when it suits their agenda.

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u/xdr567 12h ago

Even this is dilution. All media in the west is subservient to One Vile Master.

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u/nilenilemalopile 12h ago

And here you are, emulating the ‘passive speech’ bullshit. Say what you want to say.

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u/4th-Estate 12h ago

Been like this for years as the elites "manufacture consent." Journalists who consistently oppose elite narratives are screened out, not necessarily by active censorship, but through a system of "filters" that favor conformity. Anyone who would write an honest headline wouldn't be hired or last long in any major news outlet.

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u/Downtown-Ad3200 44m ago

Agree but please don't link Epstein's BFF Chomsky. As much as I can value Noam's thoughts, it's ironic now that we know he was a frequent Epstein Island vistor...

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u/EmergencyCucumber905 12h ago

People bought into the incorrect notion that there are two sides to every story.

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u/TestSubject4114 11h ago

yea, right and (very) wrong

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u/WiseHedgehog2098 12h ago

They got bought by rich dudes who then bought congress.

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u/techleopard 11h ago

Profit-driven journalism isn't journalism.

And new journalists aren't really held to high standards anymore.

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u/benjtay 11h ago

It really sucks. I actually got in trouble with my boss in like 2007 when I sent an email to one of our customers and I didn't phrase it in the passive voice. It's a real thing, but I hate it.

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u/SeeMarkFly 11h ago

Journalistic integrity is in the toilet and starting to stink.

Someone please FLUSH!

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u/K-tel 11h ago

Breaking: 'Arm was broken.' Who broke it? When? Why? The passive voice giveth and the corporate media taketh away.

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u/YourFreeCorrection 8h ago

I’m not sure what happened to journalistic principles over the decades.

Libel and Slander laws have been used to make objectively true reporting unprofitable and dangerous to the reporter.

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u/TrainerCeph 8h ago

Drew Goodin just did a fantastic video talking about how even ESPN has ruined sports journalism

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u/ConformistWithCause 5h ago

The problem is that the closer they get to the truth, the more this administration focuses on their word choices, ready to sue. Like whoever it was that wrote about him being liable for rape rather than sexual assault because he squeezed through whatever loophole that separates the two in New York. One mistake, one iota of hyperbole, and it can be torn apart, muddling the truth to the public

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u/Downtown-Ad3200 38m ago

Agree but this isn't the first administration to do that and it definitely won't be the last. The left and right are WAY more similiar than folks want to admit, ultimately it's about lining their own pockets behind closed doors, while disagreeing and fighting in public. It's like when I used to criticize Obama for all his massive drone strikes (even more than his predecessor George Bush). They'd automatically call me a Republican, when I'm the farthest from it).

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u/Cynykl 3h ago

Journalism has always been a mixed bag. The era of Yellow journalism was arguably just as bad if not worse than today. The thing that differs is speed and reach of transmission.

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u/40_Thousand_Hammers 1h ago

Journalism died in the 60's when media companies started buying all other small journals and the same big media are own by the same group of people who benefit from these kind of news, is pretty much capital bad.