• OptionalOP
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    416 days ago

    They will be vigorously attacked by the right regardless.

    Telling the truth is simple. Conmen succeed only when people don’t tell the truth.

    The corporate news media have painted themselves into a corner that only they can get themselves out of. They will need to make courageous choices, put the good of the country and public service first, and accept that a click-based-horserace is a horrible idea.

    • Seraph
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      236 days ago

      But they won’t because there’s no profit in that.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 days ago

        I’m beginning to suspect that allowing the 4th estate to operate on profit motives may have been a misguided approach towards accountability…!

    • @[email protected]
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      116 days ago

      The corporate news media doesn’t exist to put the good of the country and public service first, it exists to make money, and it’s making a lot of money; they’re not about to fix what isn’t broken just because the country - and the world as a whole - is falling apart.