First time it’s happening so frequently that I’m aware of. 🤷♂️ I’m under 40, don’t live in America. I don’t blame myself for not knowing. Seems like I should be ashamed for not knowing though, or?
I suppose you might believe in the “free” press or the “independent” media. Well those are just concepts and not reality.
🤷♂️ I don’t know what I believe in regarding those concepts. In Sweden we have something called the “Public Service”, which is tax funded media which is supposed to be independent from anything. I trust it. It definitely does a lot of criticism against the government when warranted, in the news and comedy programs and wherever.
But I’ll keep those movies(?) in mind and maybe watch them some time. Sounds educational!
Either way, it doesn’t sound great that power hungry billionaires are right now buying up news sources and social media platforms. I don’t care whether it’s happened before or not, I care that it’s happening right now. 👍
I think your disinterest in the history of media ownership will probably prevent you from understanding what is happening now. Trying to understand what is happening without context of the past is not a good strategy.
First time it’s happening so frequently that I’m aware of. 🤷♂️ I’m under 40, don’t live in America. I don’t blame myself for not knowing. Seems like I should be ashamed for not knowing though, or?
Throughout history wealthy people have always owned all media outlets and used them as their own private propaganda outlets.
I suppose you might believe in the “free” press or the “independent” media. Well those are just concepts and not reality.
I would suggest watching Good Night, and Good Luck to start to see modern journalism for what it is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night,_and_Good_Luck
🤷♂️ I don’t know what I believe in regarding those concepts. In Sweden we have something called the “Public Service”, which is tax funded media which is supposed to be independent from anything. I trust it. It definitely does a lot of criticism against the government when warranted, in the news and comedy programs and wherever.
But I’ll keep those movies(?) in mind and maybe watch them some time. Sounds educational!
Either way, it doesn’t sound great that power hungry billionaires are right now buying up news sources and social media platforms. I don’t care whether it’s happened before or not, I care that it’s happening right now. 👍
The US spends the least out of just about every country for public media.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/01/do-countries-with-better-funded-public-media-also-have-healthier-democracies-of-course-they-do/
I think your disinterest in the history of media ownership will probably prevent you from understanding what is happening now. Trying to understand what is happening without context of the past is not a good strategy.