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> Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want. This is true, but it shouldn't be viewed as unproblematic. Audience capture is a h
by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want.
This is true, but it shouldn't be viewed as unproblematic. Audience capture is a huge problem, and news organizations telling their audience what they here to the point that people get siloed in their own echo chambers is one of the main reasons why things are such a mess.
- lapcat 2y agoA spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. I'd say it's definitely possible to be in business and at the same time have business ethics, to care about the truth. I don't think it's inherently wrong to publish honest opinions, as well as funny comic strips, along with the other news, if it helps sell papers. The problems occur when business ethics, and the truth, honesty, get tossed out for the sake of profit and/or partisanship.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoNewspapers have always been like this. Here's a front page title from the Nov. 5 1888 edition of the New York World, run by Pulitzer (yes, that one): A Plot - The Republicans' desperate scheme to secure electors https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1888-11-05/ed-1/seq-1/ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1888-11-0...