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And yet the purpose of the NYT and WSJ is also profit. They also publish a lot of total dreck. You are chasing after a distinction without a difference.
by twblalock 4y ago
And yet the purpose of the NYT and WSJ is also profit. They also publish a lot of total dreck.
You are chasing after a distinction without a difference.
- ytpete 4y agoRight, but you don't expect NYT or WSJ to be required to print every "letter to the editor" submitted by anyone in the world. They are for-profit, non-government, and they print what they want. Twitter is also for-profit and not the government – so why is it different if they also choose not to broadcast some things? Newspapers and TV media also have always received a lot of government pressure trying to spin their coverage or convince them to downplay (or emphasize) certain stories. I'm still confused about why it's suddenly so much more scandalous that anything similar happened with Twitter.
- twblalock 4y ago> I'm still confused about why it's suddenly so much more scandalous that anything similar happened with Twitter. It's obviously bad in both cases, and it's clear that this kind of behavior has actually increased the attraction of misinformation and decreased trust in mainstream media -- which is the opposite of the intended result.