Anyone who thinks that spreading Trump tweets, outrage, scandals and hate is journalism or even the right to freedom of expression is wrong. Quality journalism can be defined by empowering people to be democratic. This means that some information is really more relevant than others. Hong Kong and Istanbul are proving this right now: the narcissistic obsessions of some blah-blah journalists have no place either online or on paper.
"Susamam - I can't keep quiet" brings together 18 morocco rcs data Turkish rappers who are making democratic lyrics accessible to the masses in autocratic Turkey: "If they throw you in prison one night, for no reason, you won't find a journalist to report it, they're all locked up." The video, which gives voices to democracy that are normally persecuted by Erdogan with prison and torture, has received 17 million clicks . But 17 million clicks also mean that the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", for example, is reporting again and again on Erdogan's empowerment regime, thus putting public pressure on the German government to put more pressure on Turkey.
Autocrats hate bad images. Perhaps even more than demonstrations for democracy, because people can be beaten down, but bad images remain. Here the power of the media, social, analogue and traditional, remains almost unbroken.