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Id like to see how this number has changed since 2016. Has the march toward media company consolidation increased during the Trump period?

marshmallow_12 6y ago
uniformity of thought in the media has increased. media consolidation cannot be blamed on trump. EDIT:my first statement is unqualified and based on personal feeling. the bitter partisanship i'm confronted with whenever i tune in to american news outlets form my opinion. i cannot present a historical decline in journalistic diversity. my second point is the main one. consolidation of an industry is a more symptom of capitalism than the actions of one man.
- duxup 6y ago
  >uniformity of thought in the media has increased. Has it? How do you measure that?
  - josho 6y ago
    Read about the Overton window. As an example of uniformity of thought in media. Have you considered why we aren’t having debates about open sourcing the vaccine? We just take for granted that the right thing to do is lock it up behind a couple companies and never consider the lives we could be saving by making its production immediately accessible to the entire world.
    - marshmallow_12 6y ago
      strange that it hasn't been discussed. i think the answer may be that open sourcing wouldn't speed up manufacturing as the issues are supply-chain based. not sure if that's strictly true i'm just suggesting. and open sourcing this vaccine will make it less profitable which will actually slow down the development.
      - josho 6y ago
        There are many countries where the constraint is vaccine supply.
    - duxup 6y ago
      >Have you considered why we aren’t having debates about open sourcing the vaccine? Because historically speaking that's not really something that really has come up at all? Like how do you measure that not being discussed as some sort of uniformity of thought? There's so much "issue important to me isn't being discussed, it's the media" that I don't see any evidence that it would otherwise come up ....
      - josho 6y ago
        Insulin’s patent was not enforced. Volkswagen gave their seatbelt patent to competitors. There is a history of life saving technologies being made available for free. So, we do in fact have a history of foregoing profit to save lives.
        duxup 6y ago
        I get what we're talking about. I don't get the connection to why we would expect media coverage.

marshmallow_12 6y ago

uniformity of thought in the media has increased. media consolidation cannot be blamed on trump. EDIT:my first statement is unqualified and based on personal feeling. the bitter partisanship i'm confronted with whenever i tune in to american news outlets form my opinion. i cannot present a historical decline in journalistic diversity. my second point is the main one. consolidation of an industry is a more symptom of capitalism than the actions of one man.

duxup 6y ago
>uniformity of thought in the media has increased. Has it? How do you measure that?
- josho 6y ago
  Read about the Overton window. As an example of uniformity of thought in media. Have you considered why we aren’t having debates about open sourcing the vaccine? We just take for granted that the right thing to do is lock it up behind a couple companies and never consider the lives we could be saving by making its production immediately accessible to the entire world.
  - marshmallow_12 6y ago
    strange that it hasn't been discussed. i think the answer may be that open sourcing wouldn't speed up manufacturing as the issues are supply-chain based. not sure if that's strictly true i'm just suggesting. and open sourcing this vaccine will make it less profitable which will actually slow down the development.
    - josho 6y ago
      There are many countries where the constraint is vaccine supply.
  - duxup 6y ago
    >Have you considered why we aren’t having debates about open sourcing the vaccine? Because historically speaking that's not really something that really has come up at all? Like how do you measure that not being discussed as some sort of uniformity of thought? There's so much "issue important to me isn't being discussed, it's the media" that I don't see any evidence that it would otherwise come up ....
    - josho 6y ago
      Insulin’s patent was not enforced. Volkswagen gave their seatbelt patent to competitors. There is a history of life saving technologies being made available for free. So, we do in fact have a history of foregoing profit to save lives.
      - duxup 6y ago
        I get what we're talking about. I don't get the connection to why we would expect media coverage.