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Social media cuts out the journalist middleman and makes everyone a broadcasting journalist.

Print journalism was (relatively) one to many.

Social media is many to many.



It does, but at the same time also cuts out whatever was left of journalistic ethics as well.


Perhaps, though it seems corporate profits have been prioritized over journalistic ethics in the mass media since at least the 1890s with the yellow journalism of Hearst and Pulitzer.




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