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That's why we have multiple newspapers. The other ones can cover for deficiencies of a single one. The Post is doing great investigative journalism still, inclu
by jupp0r 4y ago
That's why we have multiple newspapers. The other ones can cover for deficiencies of a single one. The Post is doing great investigative journalism still, including this piece.
- photochemsyn 4y agoI understand the argument, but I find this a bit disturbing, as there are some topics that all of the oligarch-owned newspapers will not be willing to cover in depth. There is kind of a 'fringe' that will publish some details, i.e. "(2020) Amazon: We Totally Don’t Want To Spy On You. Also Amazon: We Just Hired The Architect Of The NSA’s Mass Domestic Surveillance Program" https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/amazon-surveillance-nsa-director-keith-alexander-prism-edward-snowden-leaks/ https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/amazon-surveillance-nsa-d... However, most people view that outlet as a highly partisan right-wing opinion-centric source (with rather limited sources), not at all the 'traditional unbiased news media' - which instead avoid the story, and instead just churn out a stream of pro-government, pro-corporate propaganda 24/7. This is pretty unhealthy IMO, since, ahem, 'democracy dies in darkness', and is the kind of behavior you see from Chinese and Russian state media, not from independent journalism.
- jupp0r 4y agoSounds like you need to start a newspaper and give unbiased news to the people and become super successful doing so! In the end there will always be a market for actual journalism and a market for sensational clickbait and a market for something in between. In my opinion outfits like the NYT, WP, Economist, WSJ etc are all super flawed but in combination are doing a pretty good job keeping government accountable.