• themeatbridge
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    66 months ago

    The news media is a for-profit industry with a fiduciary duty to shareholders to sell the news as a commodity. If you expect anything noble, moral, or objective, you’re being naive.

    • mozz
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      76 months ago

      The news media is a for-profit industry with a fiduciary duty to shareholders to sell the news as a commodity.

      Absolutely true, and it’s one of the major problems with it in this country, because that’s the wrong model for it, and it more or less can’t exist in any other form.

      It’s one among many reasons I regard the OP article with some sadness and suspicion; because I do not expect anything moral or objective (let alone noble) to come out of the US news industry the majority of the time.