Any news organization that sane-washes this nonsense is not centrist.
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They are corporations that make money from news entertainment AND he's all about giving them MORE power and MORE money.
He's their golden goose and their wet dream all rolled into one.
Follow the money.
Any news organization that sane-washes this is not a "news" organization. They are a fascist's plaything.
Do better, media.
Narrator: They didn't.
corporations have incentives to be right wing. why would they be centrist?
also news organizations should be fair and accurate, not centrist.
True true
But MBFC is telling me they're all centre-left, so that must be true
From observing MBFC I can conclude it is far right.
They never really were. The Bircher types have always whined that the corporate media is "the liberal media". This was and is complete nonsense, of course. Of course, to compensate for this constant whining, they have internalized this silliness and constantly steer into goofy practices like being "objective" and giving equal times to "both sides" - this only enables the pathological lying that is the norm for the right.
News organizations are not supposed to be centrist, they are supposed to be neutral.
I completely agree with you
They 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?
You might be thinking of the Fairness Doctrine, which has to do with the subject matter and not profits.
It 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.
I think I understand your point, but if news isn't for profit, who would pay the reporters? I used to write for a newspaper and it's pretty hard work.
It can't be state sponsored, due to the conflict of interest. If the state pays for the media you couldn't trust the media to accurately report on the state.
Honestly, in good faith, wondering what the other options would be.
While there are no perfect way. It would be much less of a problem then it is now. And easier for watchdog orgs to pay attention to and call out.
Using the propaganda model... news businesses favoring profit over the public interest succeed, whilst those favoring reportorial accuracy over profits fail — and are relegated to the margins of their markets (low sales and ratings).
They do this shit like it's their main job. Now they've moved on to sane-washing talk of giant faucets in Canada.
I can't believe it! He was right!
what is happening right now
The illusion works because the support is hidden inside the flowing water
yeah i meant more like the comment thread than how the "floating pouring vessel" illusion works.. my uncle had a beer can with this thing on his home bar in the 80s
Relax I’ll call the plumber
It's pretty awful to see that there's basically nobody in mainstream media willing to stand up for immigrants given the vicious hate Trump and Vance are spewing at them. In past times Edward R. Murrow would end both of their careers. But now you just have some corporate talking head saying "we looked into the former president's claims and found no evidence that is true" when talking about lies that Trump/Vance picked up from actual neo nazis.