ObamacareForever
Senator
It's capitalism, duh!
The pursuit of profits has lowered the quality to an unacceptable level. The media frames everything that is palatable to the masses. There is nuance or shades of gray any more. Everything is simple, black and white, good and evil. You might as well turn politics into the plot of professional wrestling. We would all tune to a steel cage match between Biden and Trump.
Secondly the the pursuit of profits is cheapening the service. I think we all agree Woodward and Bernstein did some find journalism with the Pentagon Papers. But think about how costly that would be a media company today, sending a couple journalists to clandestine parking garages. The lawyer bills would be outrageous. It is far more cost effective to have a snarky twenty-something sit in front of their Twitter feed and churn out 1 paragraph articles like "Elon Musk used poop emoji" or "Fiona Hill says Putin smells bad". Journalism is now quantity over quality.
I am not saying a government ran media would be better, but capitalism is also ruining the media.
The pursuit of profits has lowered the quality to an unacceptable level. The media frames everything that is palatable to the masses. There is nuance or shades of gray any more. Everything is simple, black and white, good and evil. You might as well turn politics into the plot of professional wrestling. We would all tune to a steel cage match between Biden and Trump.
Secondly the the pursuit of profits is cheapening the service. I think we all agree Woodward and Bernstein did some find journalism with the Pentagon Papers. But think about how costly that would be a media company today, sending a couple journalists to clandestine parking garages. The lawyer bills would be outrageous. It is far more cost effective to have a snarky twenty-something sit in front of their Twitter feed and churn out 1 paragraph articles like "Elon Musk used poop emoji" or "Fiona Hill says Putin smells bad". Journalism is now quantity over quality.
I am not saying a government ran media would be better, but capitalism is also ruining the media.