Capitalism demands they don’t ask hard questions.
If they ask hard questions, politicians will stop speaking to them, if politicans stop speaking to them they stop getting content to sell to advertisers.
What about in England or Australia where they have some harder questions.
What would a system look like where they couldn’t get away
We have a handful of interviewers who might ask somewhat hard questions or call out dodging a question in Australia.
What I see is they have a sort of deal, they let the opposing side bring up their points and give them time to talk whatever bullshit 3 word slogan they’re trying to sell this week and in return they maybe sometimes give a real answer.
Oh and these interviewers are only on public broadcasts, so they’re not profit seeking.
In the UK? I dunno, probably point a random person and scream they’re trans.
So goes back to my other question. What needs to change to make it so we have interviewers that can ask these questions. We all complain but nobody really looks at how to change things
The original comment already nailed it with capitalism, you don’t need to find us a scapegoat.
I think you’re a bot
Alas the incantation fails. I remain human, cursed with knowledge and emotion.
People need to care is what needs to change. The majority of people are apathetic and tuned out of anything. Until they care enough to cause issues for the interviewers companies, there is zero reason for them to change.
Id argue a lot of people are engaged but in the wrong ways. Think about a world where there are rich people with money that spend their time online. They hire teams to influence people on the right and the left.
What would a world where the right are convinced to create and push ideological views while the left are convinced to suppress theirs?
What would that look like?
They probably wouldn’t have to ask as many hard questions as we think, because presumably such a system would prevent or disincentivize most dishonest representatives from ever getting the the point of a TV interview.
Oh bullshit, nothing to do with capitalism. When I was young journalists hunted politicians for sport, nailed 'em to the wall.
Problem is our political polarization and having a wealth of outlets to choose from. No outlet wants to lose half their audience. The audience can just go elsewhere. Back in the day, if you wanted news, you had 1 or 2 newspapers, 3 or 4 TV stations, a few radio stations. They were all basically reporting the same things because no one wanted to be accused of bias.
They understand this stuff perfectly fine. These people aren’t stupid. They’re very much part of the program.
Playing devil’s advocate, there’s a lot of pressure on journalists from both sides (employer & government) to not fall out of line. E.g. Trump’s PR people can choose to not invite you anymore.
But certainly the time has come to make hard choices here.
