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The same could be said about any prospective owner of a newspaper. Is Bezos owning media interests really worse than anybody else? I'd argue that a new entran
by notatoad 13y ago
The same could be said about any prospective owner of a newspaper. Is Bezos owning media interests really worse than anybody else? I'd argue that a new entrant into news media is much preferable to further consolidation of media among the currently small set of big players in the industry.
- philwelch 13y agoOK, the only ideal owners of a newspaper would be anthropologists from another planet who cared nothing about Earth affairs and only documented what they saw. But even failing that, you seem to see better journalism from competing groups of intellectually honest yet openly biased sources than from supposedly unbiased sources. With biased sources, you can just read every side and form your own opinion. With supposedly unbiased sources, you'd have to do the same thing anyway but it's much harder to figure out what their biases were to begin with. And sure, people can be intellectually lazy and only read sources that they agree with, but the fallacy of unbiased journalism is that a handful of media outlets will end up providing that anyway, just with the illusion of impartiality.
- throwaway2048 13y agoI am informed because i gather both sides of the arguement when I watch CNN and fox news!
- AsymetricCom 13y agoThat's certainly a valid perspective, but it's not the only one. Why not a market with both?
- philwelch 13y agoWell I'm not going to go and stop people from trying to set up impartial newspapers. I just suspect it's a fools errand in the long run.