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I'm not sure I follow. It sounds like you're blaming blogs and online media for the decline in credibility of newspapers. Newspapers aren't credible anymore be

I'm not sure I follow. It sounds like you're blaming blogs and online media for the decline in credibility of newspapers. Newspapers aren't credible anymore because they continuously make the conscious decision to run bullshit stories full of twisted truths in the pursuit of sales, as they have always done. The only reason they had any credibility before is because people blindly accepted what they said without the tools to verify it. They've had the same amount of journalistic integrity as they've always had. I.E plenty until there's a buck to be made by forgoing it.

xg15 9y ago
> Newspapers aren't credible anymore because they continuously make the conscious decision to run bullshit stories full of twisted truths in the pursuit of sales, as they have always done. Sources for that claim please? Of course there were always plenty of papers that operated like that (tabloids etc), but I doubt they were as influential in main political discussion as e.g. Fox News seems to be today.
- anon1385 9y ago
  >I doubt they were as influential in main political discussion as e.g. Fox News seems to be today. Why do you assume that? Absolute garbage tabloids have been influencing elections and dominating mainstream political discourse in western countries for decades[1]. In the UK an entire political ideology was created to try and work around the influence of right wing mass media (spoiler: the answer was allowing media barons to dictate policy). If anything tabloid influence is lower today than in the past. Compare the result of the 1992 UK general election with the 2017 one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_The_Sun_Wot_Won_It https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_The_Sun_Wot_Won_It