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>Newspapers have an incredibly important social function as muckrackers, exposing corruption, explaining politics, and breaking news They USED to do that. Now
by jbob2000 12y ago
>Newspapers have an incredibly important social function as muckrackers, exposing corruption, explaining politics, and breaking news
They USED to do that. Now they're owned by conglomerates and billionaires to parrot their ideals.
- nl 12y agoYeah. I hate how these days they have descended to starting wears to sell papers[1]. Civilisation will collapse any day now. (To make it clear, the Spanish/American war was in 1898, and a major contributor to the cause was the battle for circulation between US newspapers.) [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish–American_War#Hearst_and_Pulitzer http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish–Ame...
- nl 12y agoThat's "starting wars" of course.