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by ur-whale 1749 days ago
Corporate news aren't partisan.

Unless you count chasing the bottom line as an ideology, that is.

Fox, to take an extreme examples, isn't really partisan. They have just found a juicy business model where they've learnt to titillate the sensitivities of a certain segment of the population to maximize revenue.

I don't have problem with a biased news source, as long as I have enough news sources to dig from and can average out the bias from multiple sources.

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It's quite cynical and unfair to say neither Fox nor (for example) Jacobin really believe in what they produce, but instead just serve whichever market segments profit them. In all probability, the employees of both believe deeply in their respective missions and in their reporting.
>Fox, to take an extreme examples, isn't really partisan. They have just found a juicy business model where they've learnt to titillate the sensitivities of a certain segment of the population to maximize revenue.

That just describes their motivations as not being partisan. Their product is still highly partisan.

> Their product is still highly partisan.

Fair enough, but they're not really a news source.

I agree with you there.
> Corporate news aren't partisan.

You’ve got to be joking?

For example in the UK newspapers, even the best ones, literally declare their support for a particular party at the start of each election.