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Keep in mind that this website is a small part of a VC incubator that is very deep in the interests of finance Capital. People are taking issue with the claim
by MSFT_Edging 2y ago
Keep in mind that this website is a small part of a VC incubator that is very deep in the interests of finance Capital.
People are taking issue with the claim that media apparatuses are controlled by Capital, but its literally true. The profit motive requires any media source to optimize based on what is profitable while also handing over editorial control to the owners of these media companies.
If the main sponsor of a small town paper does something egregious, is it in the paper's interest to report on that if it means losing their funding? Of course not. That is the mechanism for control of media. Like social media censorship for ad placement, any media falls victim to the preferences of their patrons.
For example, why do we constantly see articles like "Millenials killing X" or "Gen Z killing y"? Because it get clicks. It doesn't inform anything on the systems leading to these trends, that wouldn't make money. Making people mad makes money, but if you make people mad about actual issues, the beneficiaries of those policies wouldn't appreciate the added attention on those issues. So we get articles that gets us mad about nonsense. Not because "They" want us distracted, but because it makes money to make people mad, but you have to pick outrage mine with a longer lifespan. If you make people mad regularly about the broken healthcare system, they might lose their sponsorship from Aetna or BCBS.