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> the loud opinions of overconfident charlatans spewing forth bullshit at an unprecedented rate You just described corporate media. Ever watched Fox/CNN/MSNBC

• dnissley 5y ago
  "Rather than news, the paper (nytimes) began to sell what was, in effect, a creed, an agenda, to a congregation of like-minded souls. Post-journalism “mixes open ideological intentions with a hidden business necessity required for the media to survive,” Mir observes. The new business model required a new style of reporting. Its language aimed to commodify polarization and threat: journalists had to “scare the audience to make it donate.” At stake was survival in the digital storm." https://www.city-journal.org/journalism-advocacy-over-reporting https://www.city-journal.org/journalism-advocacy-over-report...