>That short period of time where comics adapted journalists as these selfless, brave action heroes
They wouldn't adapt well if they were made in the present
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Nah, you still get a handful of journalists out there who can do a decent job
They're usually Youtubers who like to travel though and don't normally call themselves Journalists
Why didn't they write an article on how outdated they are?
People actually thought transmetropolitan would be an accurate representation of the future
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There was a period in the 90s when the "gonzo journalist" was a thing, like Mark Ames and the Exile.
But Google killed their business profile with the ad monopoly. Now they are glorified PR prostitutes, with a few exceptions.
Also even Spider is noticeably pulling his punches when it comes to "protected classes".
There are brave journalists out there still, we just don't hear much about them, in favor of glorified bloggers and pundits.
They always get their 15 minutes of fame
When their beheading video is released
We just had a movie like this
That was lame though - the photojournalists in that movie weren’t selfless people trying to share the truth with the world… they were gloryhounds obsessed with getting the perfect shot.
Because it's completely different now, the business is changed, gutted. News orgs maintained foreign desks with field reporters, it was daring and romantic. Now they just summarize what they've read from an RSS feed or Twitter and call it a day.
Any worthwhile journalist gets killed by either the cia, a corporation, or mossad.
What about Joe Sacco?
I don't read comics, I just complain about them.
Hate to break it to you Dubsman but journalists have always been scum. The rare brave and honest war correspondent or conspiracy-busting muckraker is the exception that proves the rule.
Off the top of your head, can you name the journalist who died to give us the Panama Papers? Not using google, we all have that. I mean (You), do you know who she was? She got killed, in a car bomb, to give us all as a collective people information about What's Really Going On. Do people know? Was it the Panama Papers, or the Paradise Papers? Does it even matter? Is anyone going to do anything beyond this empty virtue signaling I am doing in this very post?
There are selfless brave heroes out there. Some of them work as journalists, and some of them even self-identify as such. But fantasy is fantasy and reality is reality.
There's also Julian Assange.
>can you name the journalist who died to give us the Panama Papers?
The frick are the Panama papers? Something something 1980s CIA & Manuel Noriega nobody cares about any more?
It was a massive document leak to the media that laid out in graphic details, how the wealthy elite hide their money to avoid paying taxes on it and how they hide bribe/extortion money they receive, along with how drug cartels hide their fortunes from authorities.
>can you name the journalist who died to give us the Panama Papers?
No. Because she didn't die "to give us" the papers (person who did that isn't publicly known). She was just already investigating one of the many people who were later revealed by the Papers - she had no personal connection to the leak. She was also an absolute shit-stirrer who had been making enemies of rich & nefarious buttholes and been receiving death threats for decades, so her assassination could very well have been for something else. On top of all that, she was from Malta, not some "real" country. Nor was she young & hot. So given everything, it isn't surprising that outside of her brief moment of posthumous fame, she isn't really remembered. Yeah, it is a pity. She would make a good basis for a relentless driven journalist character.
The leaker went unnamed, butthole.
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Does Superman count?
It's a good plot device, because journalists travel all over the world, and it's close to their profession so they write about something they have expertise in. It doesn't feel fake like sportsmen and fighters written by scrawny nerds.
Doesn't it?
They are. Nawalny or Assange is proof enough that you even have selfish (in the greater sense) in very grey areas!