• @[email protected]
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    39 months ago

    It used to be that newsrooms operated at a loss because news was seen as a valuable service for the people. Now they have to turn a profit. That means lower budgets, not pissing off advertisers, and peddling sensationalist bullshit designed to rile people up so they engage more.

    • @Peaty
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      29 months ago

      Newsrooms were not operated at a loss. Newsrooms and the business side rarely interacted so as to keep up the appearance of journalistic integrity. That is what degraded in the 80s/90s when media companies became focused on profit rather than the service they provide

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      -19 months ago

      What about non profit news orgs that run under capitalism? Plenty of european countries have national news outlets that don’t turn in profit.

      This is what I mean, such a good example of the lemmy boogeyman lmao

      • @[email protected]
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        09 months ago

        You asked the OP to tie it into capitalism. I did that. I’m aware that state funded news exists.

        This is what I mean, such a good example of the lemmy boogeyman lmao

        I’m gonna assume you thought you had something there, I’ve no idea what though.

        • @[email protected]
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          -39 months ago

          So, there exist non-profit news outlets under capitalism, yet capitalism is bad since news outlets are for-profit?

          I am sbsolutely dunking it on commies tonight, holy shit it’s easy

          • @[email protected]
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            -39 months ago

            I’ve linked a decline in the overall quality of news, especially in the US over the last few decades, to capitalism. As for the rest of your post, you’ve shown a few times now that you lack maturity. If you’re not an edge lord teen then I feel bad for you.

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              -29 months ago

              Who consumes “overall news”? I use the national news service of my capitalist home country for real investigative stuff and ad-paid for-profit shitnews for the more entertaining ones.

              Read Pravda lately?

              • @[email protected]
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                -29 months ago

                Just to be clear, I’m not interested in continuing this conversation. You’re not worth the effort.

                • @[email protected]
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                  -39 months ago

                  Of course you are not. It must hurt when your emotional investment into an intrinsically violent ideology is logically questioned. Time helps my friend.