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I am sharing this again because the stats tell a story that everyone should be paying attention to. (journalism thread)

Warren Buffett sees newspapers dying. But PR jobs are booming bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets
The numbers here say there are 6.4 public relationship people to every working journalist. This is a startling number that should concern any citizen, although for more journalists it is confirmation of what we experience daily.
It is often the case that we are outnumbered and in the case of politics, the approach appears to be to use superior numbers - combined with the reach of social media - to bombard the public with spin and half-truths faster than journalists can fact-check and report the truth.
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