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This appears to be correct. Most media outlets now are activists pretending to be journalists, run by businesspeople who care about revenue more than truth.
by nostromo 6y ago
This appears to be correct. Most media outlets now are activists pretending to be journalists, run by businesspeople who care about revenue more than truth.
- pete_aykroyd 6y agoWhich one are they? Activists or business people? Saying that they are both doesn’t hold water.
- nostromo 6y agoThey aren't the same people. The journalists are the activists. The managers and owners are the businesspeople. Their motivations are very different but their incentives are aligned.
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoThis has been true since the advent...I remember reading about the wars between Hamilton and Jefferson in the papers way back during the young years of the US. None of this is new. It's way overamplified now, and everyone cries censorship and fascism when it suits them.
- alchemism 6y agoRemember the Maine!
- specialist 6y agoOur expectations of objectivity (NPOV) is very recent and abnormal. I'd like many many more Clay Shirky style analysis of print, broadcast, and social media, followed by a 100 crazy notions for novel NPOV organizations.
- rat87 6y agoThe Intercept has long been an activist paper. That's why Glenn joined. That doesn't mean they care about revenue over truth though
- rstupek 6y agoYou mean helped found, not joined?