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Lauren Hug's avatar

The questions you raise regarding transparency, compensation, equal time, and standards and ethics for social media personalities vs journalists are spot on. Your newsletter hit my inbox less than 24 hours after I read a story about how 84% of teens describe news media in negative terms. The writer noted that students are unfamiliar with journalistic standards and ethics. When people don't understand the "rules" that apply to traditional journalism, it's a challenge to reach consensus on what "rules" should apply to digital creators with their own channels.

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SocraticGadfly's avatar

Never even heard of Katie Grossbard, and yes, some sort of disclosure like you wrote, Corey, should be done.

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John C. Lamb's avatar

Journos vs content creators: As far as politics is concerned, there are no unbiased journos and darn near all can be considered to be no different than content creators.

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Jann Scott's avatar

Ya see Corey , that's why so called journo like you and many of your followers are little commies. You blame the girl Instagram content creator for selling advertorials on campaigns. 250,000 readers. Good for her. She will survive while you are holding your dick begging for donations. Wake the fuck up pal. ! Without advertisers and sales departments y'all die a slow miserable death. .. so dumb

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