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The period during which the majority of mainstream news was a venerable “fourth estate” must have been for an exceedingly brief period of time. Generally the ne
by reaperman 3y ago
The period during which the majority of mainstream news was a venerable “fourth estate” must have been for an exceedingly brief period of time. Generally the news has always been owned / controlled by wealthy and powerful interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
- cogman10 3y agoWhat's changed is public consumption/access to news about local issues. Pretty much every local newspaper has been bought up and now almost exclusively talks about ads... err.. I mean national issues. And it isn't even articles that these papers write, rather just the same article published by someone like The McClatchy Company. Same thing happened to broadcast news.