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My father refused to read Time for decades - decades - because they'd manipulated their cover photo of OJ Simpson to make him look darker-skinned than he actual
by bsanr2 5y ago
My father refused to read Time for decades - decades - because they'd manipulated their cover photo of OJ Simpson to make him look darker-skinned than he actually is. It was, I'm told, A Thing, along with All-American restaurant Denny's having to pay out millions in damages over racial discrimination (Wells Fargo having to do the same 20 years later does much for my suspicion that the 2010s are something of an echo of the 90s). This is what is on my personal radar; I'm sure someone with other priorities can name similar, fact-based grievances with other institutions that ostensibly design their products for general American consumption.
For news, in many cases, the issue isn't so much the veracity of what's being reported, but... what's being reported. You only have so many pages and only so much reader mental bandwidth.