thrwaway8989

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   by thrwaway8989 8y ago

   To clarify my point, even today, most newspapers have an agenda, in fact, that’s probably a major reason for people owning anything larger than a small local paper. But. it was a pull mechanism, so the newspapers didn’t have a spigot to sho
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   by thrwaway8989 8y ago

   I meant actual spam..unsolicited advertising. An unfiltered feed will be overwhelmed with crap, so filtering becomes necessary immediately. As soon as that happens, decisions have to be made...(more clicks=“better” etc)...and that opens the
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   by thrwaway8989 8y ago

   The uncomfortable truth is that a large proportion of the population that would formerly have been peripherally interested in current affairs, perhaps watching the news on TV once in a while, and rarely reading newspapers (which had a massi