"Journalism" - not Twitter - invented the pile on, the public smear campaign, the rumours exaggerated as fact, the facts ignored, the appeals to primitive tribalism, racism and xenophobia, the invasions of privacy, all while claiming the status of a unique moral correctness.
Murdoch and the News Of The World didn't invent that kind of toxic business model. It has been a low bar for over a century. Ask Lindy Chamberlain. Ask anyone "of African appearance" in Melbourne, ask any Muslim, look at the front pages and editorial lines run by Murdoch. 
Meanwhile, even as they claim unique moral correctness for their every action, some of them pursue and attempt to smear anyone they deem alien to their editorial stance, or who threatens their relationship with the regime they are cleaving to at the time...
The contradictory 'wave or particle' nature of bourgeois social systems is highlighted by relationships with journalism. Without its power to demand answers, despotism thrives unchecked. Yet, as a business it prospers as an agency of social control, in cahoots with advertisers.
Reporters defending the moral entitlement of reporters to an audience of other reporters is a signifier of a social phenomenon best defined as "elite over-production." In short, in our era, there is an over supply of this essentially homogeneous status group.
Journalism, the thing signified by the formal publication of reporting, is sustained by myth and folk legends. Woodstein and Bernwood meet Deep Throat and bring down a president. Lois Lane bravely faces peril in her dogged pursuit of Superman's real identity.
Reporting also claims it is all things to all people, and yet as perennially reported by journalism itself, the trade lacks the actual social and cultural diversity to be all that it claims. Despite claiming to speak up, it often speaks down.
"Diversity." A perennial concern. Frequently raised, but stubbornly unchanged. "When newsrooms are dominated by white people, they miss crucial facts..." This, Circa 2018. theguardian.com/world/commenti…
Or this, circa 2016"...barriers faced by those from poorer backgrounds or minorities are getting higher." "Journalism's lack of diversity threatens its long-term future..." theguardian.com/media/2016/aug…
Or this, circa 2020. "Whitewash on the box: how a lack of diversity on Australian television damages us all..." "75% of [TV] presenters, commentators and reporters are of Anglo-Celtic [and middle-class!] background." theconversation.com/whitewash-on-t…
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