This is a culmination of many things, and overall it shows we’ve really fucked ourselves as a country over the years. Capitalism dictates how our communication

This is a culmination of many things, and overall it shows we’ve really fucked ourselves as a country over the years. Capitalism dictates how our communication and news operates, and this is a side effect of changing circumstances where TV and print media are dying, people aren’t paying for news, and companies are relying on ad revenue for their business models - which means having to attract and hold on to consumers. I’m not trying to paint capitalism as the devil. Just saying it’s not like this was a total surprise given we could see the road we went down. It’s pretty fucking unfortunate the most prevalent sources of current events and information equate to the ‘McDonalds of news and Walmarts of TV’. I know people get spooked about propaganda at the thought of government funded news... though clearly having a bunch of rich assholes ‘run news’ hasn’t been so good either. Idk, I guess this is an eye-opener of the importance of publicly funded places like PBS?