- If you only read headlines shared on social media,
- and you do not read the actual stories
- and you do not read the stories that didn't make the front page
- and you do not open other newspapers, magazines, websites that contain journalism
- and you do not pay for any journalism
then you do not get to criticize "the media" for what it omits... or at least no one should listen to you.
@jilleduffy I get your point but who, other than journalists, has time for that? We're long past the days when the average person had time to sit and read a newspaper front to back, and yet journalism is pumping out even more content and most of it is just reporting what someone else reported.
Is a true omission really so different from burying the omitted info in a mountain of crap?
@LouisIngenthron That's fine. I get that not everyone can spend a lot of time being informed. But if a person has a shallow and cursory understanding of something, their criticism about it shouldn't carry much weight. I will think more about your points, though.
@jilleduffy So if you’re just an ordinary person who is a victim of the system’s abuses or collateral damage of bad actors, you should have no voice toward altering that status quo?
I don’t know about that…
I get the spirit of the comment, but it doesn’t really account for how exhausted people are with the media model. Aren’t we *all* paying and paying and paying with the current system? We’re definitely not getting equal value for that payment generally.
@NateBarham
I appreciate your comments and will think about them. As of now, it doesn't change my opinion. If a person has a shallow and cursory understanding of something, their criticisms of it shouldn't be taken seriously. But again, I will think about your points more.
@jilleduffy And I’m definitely considering yours. 
The portion you included here is exactly what I meant in reference to the spirit of your comment. On that, I think we agree.