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Please go buy a subscription to your local news paper if it still exists, even if you almost never read it.
My local newspaper is more right wing than national news. Journalists aren't magical beings that are naturally neutral. Most local news papers are pure fascist propaganda.
Fucking christ what a sobering post
The free market failed is why.
The concept is people would only pay for news that they want/support. Sensationalization, the Internet, MKultra level advertising and simply how information is shared but not paid for gave rise to fake news.
Now you make money lying to make more money. Why bother with the truth is nobody pays for it in an economy where you need to be paid to survive?
Feels like then the "free" market is at odds with factual reporting
Could we not just have news mutuals? Where subscribers for 4 years get to vote on the next newspaper editor?
Normies get quality news, subscribers get juicy articles.
Its not the only reason.
It may be the most common reason, but its not the only one
In 25 yrs of internet, no one's figured it out
Would beg to differ, newslaundry.com exists