Fixing a broken news industry.

Lara Setrakian/Syria Deeply:

Trust in the media has hit an all-time low; we’re inundated with sensationalist stories, and consistent, high-quality reporting is scarce. She shares three ways we can fix the news and make the complex issues of our time easier to understand.

1. Deep reporting/deep domain knowledge
2. Journalistic Hippocratic Oath – ‘Do No Harm’
3. Embrace complexity…not simplicity. It is a complex world.

[Most importantly, profits and corporate ownership need to be eliminated from journalism and broadcast media. Our country needs to reinstate a true Fourth Estate, the backbone of democracy, i.e., more grassroots media organizations who deep report, take the oath, and embrace complexity.]