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When advertisers have the ability to masquerade their for-hire opinion manipulation as journalism, the public can no longer be in any meaningful way begin to ho
by superuser2 11y ago
When advertisers have the ability to masquerade their for-hire opinion manipulation as journalism, the public can no longer be in any meaningful way begin to hold government and corporate interests accountable. Native advertising is an existential threat to democracy and its profiteers belong in prison.
I'd much rather pay journalists to tell me the truth than read what people with money are paying them to tell me.
- ixtli 11y agoWhile I agree with you in principle, I don't think that people not wanting intrusive advertising in their blogs and acting to avoid it is going to effect this problem one way or another. What you're asking for is a BBC-style news service in America which is something I would love. If you had that, every few links on hackernews would still try to autoplay some sort of sound in a flash ad.