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The free press has always been for profit! What's changed is that the profit used to come from advertising. Since everyone read the news, they could charge a l
by BurningFrog 1y ago
The free press has always been for profit!
What's changed is that the profit used to come from advertising. Since everyone read the news, they could charge a lot for ads.
Those days are over, and news now bubble up from social media. That kinda works, but it's far from ideal.
To me the 2019 "Covington kids" incident showed how broken the media had become. All the prestigious media, from NY Times down, reprinted a viral Twitter thread as front page news without any fact check.
The reported "facts" were completely wrong, and even if they had been right, some random kids being rude in a park should never be national news.
Bu that's the news world we live in now.
- anonymousiam 1y agoSpeaking of Twitter, I couldn't help but notice the lack of a Twitter/X icon on the author's blog page. Lots of other social media links are present.
- edent 1y agoAuthor here. Elon directly screwed over some of my friends. He turned Twitter from an imperfect mess into a shit filled pit of despair. I don't want to encourage anyone to use his services. Hope that clarifies things!