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This. The free press is not objective, or benevolent, or ethical. Yes, parts of it may have started that way, but today's free press is merely free, in that i
by metafunctor 10y ago
This.
The free press is not objective, or benevolent, or ethical. Yes, parts of it may have started that way, but today's free press is merely free, in that it can and will say anything, within legal bounds. It ends up saying whatever gets the most eyeballs.
We need a better way to disseminate factual information to the public. Sadly, I have no idea how to do that.
- lambertsimnel 10y agoSome donor-funded news sources are quite good. https://theconversation.com/ https://theconversation.com/ has African, Australian, French, UK, US and global versions (but the African, US and global editions seem not to be donor-funded), Creative Commons licensing, and no advertising (but it does have sponsors). I wonder how it would cope with a billion readers.