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Nevermind that. When pharma is buying up 50% or more of the ad time during your news programs how can you be expected to accurately cover stories involving them

• NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
  You can't. It's literally a conflict of interest.
  • crummy 5y ago
    I guess the concept of advertising in media in general is literally a conflict of interest, right? Unless your content is very narrowly targeted at X, and your ads are narrowly targeted at Y, and there is no overlap between the audience for X and Y?
    • tablespoon 5y ago
      >>> Nevermind that. When pharma is buying up 50% or more of the ad time during your news programs how can you be expected to accurately cover stories involving them? >> You can't. It's literally a conflict of interest. > I guess the concept of advertising in media in general is literally a conflict of interest, right? If you follow the logic of the GP and GGP to its conclusion, it's not much of an exaggeration to say that none of us common citizens can know anything about the world, because it's a contradiction for a adequately-funded media organization to exist that's also funded by no-one. In the real world, there are methods for managing conflicts of interest like those caused by advertisers and other funding sources (things like firewalls within an organization, etc). They don't work absolutely perfectly, but do they work pretty well.