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Read an article on this last week. With the internet sucking up all the advertising revenue, journalism is turning into propaganda in order to try to retain pat
by bitbang 6y ago
Read an article on this last week. With the internet sucking up all the advertising revenue, journalism is turning into propaganda in order to try to retain patronage. It's eating them from the inside out.
https://thedispatch.com/p/words-as-weapons-how-activist-journalists https://thedispatch.com/p/words-as-weapons-how-activist-jour...
- tsimionescu 6y agoThis has always been the case. Do you imagine news barons ever allowed journalists to publish stories that didn't suit their narrative?
- im3w1l 6y agoI think a new thing is that so few control the news consumption of so many?
- tsimionescu 6y agoIsn't it the other way around? Weren't news much more concentrated before the option of writing blog posts or tweets existed?
- dec0dedab0de 6y agoNot necessarily, professional news organizations, including blogs and tweeters are increasingly owned by fewer and fewer parent companies. At least compared to say 70 years ago. If you go back farther it will be a different story.