piefedderateddOops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump’s Outrage
RhaedasThey analyzed how it would affect their numbers and determined it would turn off too many MAGA viewers and not attract enough other viewers to make up the difference. News for profit was always a bad idea.
Maybe this is just I dream I had but wasn’t there some kind of regulation at one point that said news orgs (or departments) couldn’t make a profit?
EldritchIt was a dream. But a good one. Until we manage to go full communism someone will have to make something for their time and effort in order to live. But if we broke up most of the media. And put strict regulation against publicly owned companies owning or trying to pass themselves as anything relating to news. It would be a good start. Stuff being privately owned does not automatically make it more factual. But at least an owner might have a reputation that they could value. When it comes to publicly owned companies. Where the bottom line is profit. Truth and factuality are the first things sacrificed.