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Manufacturing Consent appeared almost 40 years ago, and it complains about the exact same kind of influence. News organizations have always been highly dependen
by tsimionescu 3y ago
Manufacturing Consent appeared almost 40 years ago, and it complains about the exact same kind of influence. News organizations have always been highly dependent on ads (at least the ones that weren't dependent on being some magnate's vanity rag), so the reality is that they have always been deeply aware of how to avoid making the ads people too angry with the news they publish.
Maybe today they are more brazen in this intermingling, but it has always been there.
- bluGill 3y agoThe real difference is back then they would push back: do you want to reach the people who follow us or not. Of course back then ads were sold in house. You didn't have the powerful middleman who could afford to say no to just you. (there were such middlemen, but they were not as powerful as most ads were in house)
- raxxorraxor 3y agoIt argues it to be a mechanism for censorship but people still decline it is censorship because people have the ability to not show Google ads. You can argue that, but the perspective seem intentionally stunted.