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Wasnt there an old ~8 hour long movie about the media making up stories to sell news? Edit: I cannot remember the name, I just remember being in JB HiFi in Aus
by philliphaydon 5y ago
Wasnt there an old ~8 hour long movie about the media making up stories to sell news?
Edit: I cannot remember the name, I just remember being in JB HiFi in Australia looking at DVDs and there was an old black and white movie from the 20s or 30s about a guy who has a new empire but they make up stories to sell the paper and none of it was real. I just remember not buying it because the time was something like 6-8 hours long.
- runarberg 5y agoAnd dozens of essays by post-modern philosophers about (e.g. Public Opinion Does Not Exist by Bourdieu [1972]) and subsequent psychological studies about inherent biases, which together pretty resoundingly proves the non-existence of unbiased media. Furthermore it shows that biases correlate with benefactors, so you can expect more biases in platforms which rely on shareholders, named donations or advertisements.
- innocentoldguy 5y agoI don't know about a movie, but there have been several books written about media bias by people in the media. One example is Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias." (https://www.amazon.com/Bias-Insider-Exposes-Media-Distort/dp/0895261901 https://www.amazon.com/Bias-Insider-Exposes-Media-Distort/dp...)
- iso1631 5y agoIt's an age old trope - just look at the Daily Bugle.