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They get away with it, because the selected news stories fit the predisposed beliefs and biases of their readers. Just like all media. A related point - The Gu
by rewiuoeriouf 4y ago
They get away with it, because the selected news stories fit the predisposed beliefs and biases of their readers. Just like all media.
A related point - The Guardian makes much of the fact that they are funded by a trust fund, arguing that it makes them "independent". I doubt they would make the same argument about other companies or individuals sustained by old wealth.
- swores 4y agoThere is quite a difference between a newspaper owned by a wealthy trust (that doesn't have owners extracting profit from it) and one owned by a wealthy company (that has one or more people whose goal is to make as much money as possible). Obviously that doesn't remove all biases, it doesn't remove all the ways people in the non-profit might still be motivated by agendas either related to wanting to be paid more by the non-profit or to make more money in their other business interests, and it of course doesn't mean they've done the impossible and become a perfect, infallible news organisation. But it's still a hell of an improvement over the way nearly all other major newspapers are owned.
- rewiuoeriouf 4y agoI understand the argument. What makes their trust-funded operation better than all the others? Do we just have to take their word that they are the morally superior trust fund baby? After all, that phrase is typically used as a slur against someone's character and/or moral and social worth.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y ago> What makes their trust-funded operation better than all the others? the answer to this question is well-explained in the post you replied to