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Well, since no true free market exists... reintroduce regulations that prevent media consolidation and conglomerates...

• luckylion 7y ago
  Would that change "bad news is good news" though? Even individuals on Twitter will gravitate to the most uncharitable understanding, the most outrageous version of events etc because it will generate the most attention. I'm not so sure we can rely on "journalists will not fall for the allure of fame" if we remove the corporate interest. My opinion is somewhere in this direction: there are some publications that are targeted at professionals that won't play the hysteria-game, because professionals don't need entertainment, they want information to base business decisions on. For the general public, "the news" doesn't really matter for most of their decisions ("Hong Kong is heating up ... how does this affect my dinner plans for Thursday?"), so they primarily get entertainment from the news, and when the companies give them what they want, you get what we have.