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I’d like to see the MT readership numbers. It can’t be many more than Saint Andrew’s parents.

Mississippi Today doesn't move the needle. The Barksdalers are the new MSM in Mississippi ... with less reach.

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About Plucked

It's not like there are murders and public corruption to report on in the Metro area.

Leftist corporate journalism is in freefall. They did it to themselves.

It doesn't even include all of the Saint Andrews parents. I'm one of them, and trying to explain what "biased reporting" is to a teenager is exhausting.

The AP has lost all credibility and is now begging for donations claiming unbiased reporting when they went down the same rabbit hole as the rest of the MSM. Buh-bye.

Mississippi Today learned nothing from the collapse of that other free weekly "news" thing.

What was it called ?
The Jackson Free Press perhaps ?

But I'll give Donna Ladd credit ... she did give a "best of"
award to Clay Edwards.

I would have never guessed Donna & her staff liked Clay Edwards.

KF - I disagree with describing MT as having “a monopoly on print media.”

They are not the media.
They are not journalists.

They are political activists trying to use the cloak of “journalism” to push a very liberal ideology. And they use Dickie Scruggs illegally obtained funds to do it.
And, of course, Barksdale’s money.

This is wonderful news! The leftist media continues to eat its young.

Credibility is vested in networks that gather, archive, and diffuse coherent stories, with each node in the network supporting and legitimizing the others. The credibility of MSM is eroding because they have still not grasped that principle. They still see themselves as the most authoritative, if not the only game in town. But their authority was based on exclusivity as much as on the “strategic ritual” of objectivity (in Gaye Tuchman’s famous phrase) and the exclusivity was based on the control of printing presses and broadcast networks.

Stakeholder media (SHM) live in another world, and not just because they’re online. They operate on the idea that truth lives in a community — not just a given market, as for MSM, but a gathering of those who share a specific common agenda. SHM also presume that the purpose of the truth is to defend the community — to help it thrive, and to realize its objectives. Greenpeace.org makes no apologies for its vision of how to save the planet, and its first audience is the membership community, three million strong, that funds its activism.

And MT no more supports objective journalism than Greenpeace. It promotes the narratives of the limousine liberals and RINOs that fund them. The same self serving generational wealth that deems inherited wealth and power as "talent." Couple that with TechBro wealth, and we have the current state of digital propaganda being pushed as adults sort it out to see if there is coherence, logic, and corroboration. While the children (not necessarily chronological at all) spew conspiracy and that latest nugget from FB and X "sources." Sad.

I'd like to know what the above comment-writers believe to be valid sources of (relatively, because nothing involving humans can be perfectly objective) non-biased news.

I'm serious; I would actually like some specific examples please (excluding JJ, because we all obviously read it).

Well said....but, everyone needs to understand how the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex outright controls ALL broadcast media through the billions of advertising dollars they provide to each network. So, if the networks don't spew the agenda(s) that Big Pharma wants (i.e., socialism/fascism/communism) then they threaten that network with canceling/pulling advertising.

When every third or fourth commercial is a medication commercial - you de facto own the broadcast news and entertainment industries. Who owns Big Pharma? Look it up pilgrims.

I get all of my news from memes on 4chan.

Emily great reporter wish her well. Mississippi Today is sad could have been so much. I know these people need jobs but to sell your journalistic integrity for a job is tough. I think I would try to find another way to make a living

For many of you, apparently, the " news" is only what you want to accept or believe or that reinforces your beliefs. You don't really bother with the legitimacy of the source.

In-depth investigative reporting that yields findings that make some uncomfortable tends to be tagged as “liberal”. At least in Mississippi.

It's not that easy - in addition to sponsors, you have the influence of the reporters, the editors, the media corporate structure, and the government. You have to monitor several reliable options, digest the content, and filter the fly shit from the pepper on your own.

Of course, the following are considered "media" sources for the sake of discussion. Objective "Research" has been bought and paid for for decades, meaning it's totally corrupted and does not favor actual promotion of positive health outcomes, only products for profit. Pharma will never discuss root-causes of disease, nor prevention....there's no money to be made off of the sheep in that model. The best model is perpetually sick people, and especially perpetually sick children. For your meta-analysis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYmNc60suw

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/health/rfk-jr-tv-drug-ads-ban.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyLVrHWZTEc

@7:10 AM 4chan is pretty much the last place in the world with unlimited free speech. And that really terrifies people. Also, porn. Lots and lots of porn.

Ok, @9:00am, just for fun, what is your definition of "in-depth investigative reporting". I cannot remember the last time I read any, and I mean any, newspaper article or watched any broadcast or cable news that only reported the facts. Every article or report always omits part of the story, and the story always includes opinions which means the "findings" are not reported correctly.

Good job, Emily and Regelio. Gonna miss you guys. Corporate went seriously woke on y'all. Businesses and institutions are running away from DEI and wokism, but not AP. The current Stylebook is a prime example.

Of course, to leftists, a "valid" news source will in the end be one whose content and editorial slant the leftists approve.

And good bye and good luck to the APsters. Hope y'all find a place you can learn to code.

@3:08 They are now importing the coders from India with H1B visas for pennies on the dollar. Ever wonder why apps for Windows, macOS, and all video games are so buggy? You get what you pay for!

Forty years ago as a journalism major at The W, not one class went by without our being told "You have no opinion." You may express an opinion only in a column clearly marked as opinion. Those teachers, long gone, I'm sure are rolling in their graves.

It's a job and to do it right you have to work to do it right.
It takes effort to remain unbiased. A carpenter can either do great work or shoddy work. Same goes for any other profession. Somewhere along the way, people entering the news media profession stopped reporting facts and started trying to shape the news according to their own agendas. They started minimizing certain facts (or hiding them) and amplifying (or manufacturing) other facts. It's like if a sports writer stopped reporting on the game and he decided to run out on the field and tackle players on the team he didn't like. That's how we got here.

MBrookes, I hear ya. I was a journalism major in another state, and I second the training that opinion pieces may only appear in the editorial section.

As 1:58 mentioned, changing the AP Stylebook seems to be the Number 1 target for people with agendas.

No worries. Some low-level nobody will not only give you the REAL inside scoop on everything but will generously allow you to purchase ridiculously overpriced crap with "MAGA" and other nonsense cheaply printed on cheaply-made shit imported from China. Ah, monetization: idiots selling idiots idiocy. Tariffs are gonna be problem for that industry, Benjamin...

9:00 AM, I really miss my teen years while naïve enough to believe ignorance like you penned.

Re: Jim Barksdale, I have to be missing something. What makes an American hero that took down monopolist Bill Gates become the white liberal (so-called progressive) Democrat that Malcom X warned us about many decades ago? How does anyone sleep at night pushing leftist Democrat propaganda resulting in high crime and chaos leading to 2 young innocent children dying from stray bullets in just 10 days, the murder of 6-year old Kingston Frazier, and countless other immoral atrocities in America’s murder capital Jackson MS alone?

Of course we can likely assume Jim Barksdale lives in a safe protected gated subdivision, almost certainly makes sure, via private schools, that his offspring doesn’t have to deal with the disastrous Democrat controlled Jackson Public Schools, and keeps Mississippi Today safely (compared to Jackson) located in Republican controlled Ridgeland, MS.

Re: convict Dickie Scruggs, why didn’t he learn from Michael Milken and slither off in to the world of philanthropy after his joke/privileged prison sentence? Who, with even one ounce of integrity would ever believe anything convict Richard F. “Dickie” Scruggs says after what he and those other white collar thug attorneys did according to The Fall of the House of Zeus and Tort Kings (READ to be COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY)?

Like the judge said: "The Romans had a proverb that money was like sea water. The more you drink the thirstier you become.”

@5:39, MT conveniently sidesteps by calling the many opinion columns they run as 'analysis'.