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The Media's Political Suicide
[Sultan Knish] The transformation of the media from for-profits to non-profits sheds any commitment to the marketplace, to a community of readers who pay for its services, and instead puts it at the service of dot com tycoons who want to invest in left-wing causes. The experience of reading or watching the media’s content also changes from information to indoctrination. As is the case with so many of the dot com giants which finance the media and on whose platforms the media depends, the reader and the viewer are no longer consumers, they are the product that is being sold to the media’s political backers.Even as the non-profit media claims that it’s now free to pursue journalism as a public service, it’s not providing a service to the public, it’s serving a small class of donors by trying to influence the public. Which raises questions about freedom of the press, and whether one-sided propaganda should be permitted to run amok, while alternatives are choked off or hounded out of existence. Do we really owe these entities their protections under these circumstances? Posted by: charger 2020-08-03 |
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