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> Increasingly partisan news media made possible by more fragmented media (first cable, then the Internet) Isn’t the entire mainstream media owned by only like

> Increasingly partisan news media made possible by more fragmented media (first cable, then the Internet) Isn’t the entire mainstream media owned by only like 6 corporations[1]? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/these-6...

greggyb 7y ago
There used to be literally three channels. We've doubled!
- bilbo0s 7y ago
  Good point. There's a lot more news outlets than there used to be when I was a kid. No question about that.
- nradov 7y ago
  Well 4 if you count PBS.
  - greggyb 7y ago
    We've 1.5x-ed!
jtaillon 7y ago
Yup, who make money the more you engage with or watch their advertisers. It turns out anger/rage seems to be the best way to do that. People (on the whole) don't consume political media to be challenged in their views... they get a dopamine hit from hearing that their view is correct and continue in a spiral hating the other side of whatever issue is at hand.