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by slang800 2557 days ago
Maybe readers aren't the customers and newspapers are actually selling narrative control.
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That's more or less how Russian printed press worked in the 1990s and early 2000s. All major newspapers and magazines not telling you how to have sex after properly tying your girlfriend to the bed were losing money, and each was owned by a major businessperson who wanted to control the narrative or at least to look like they were able to.