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It was not a free market of ideas but a free market of media outlets and those with the biggest wallets bought most all of the media outlets.
by stevenwoo 1y ago
It was not a free market of ideas but a free market of media outlets and those with the biggest wallets bought most all of the media outlets.
- idle_zealot 1y agoThat's certainly the primary driver of the state of media outlets today, but good ideas don't win on even ground either. The nuances of reality cannot compete with simple narratives for human attention and buy-in. Gatekeeping and general respect for intellectual integrity are necessary cultural components that have been eroded, and it will not be easy to reestablish them.