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by tuatoru 1400 days ago
Tabloids have only existed for 150 years or so. Before them, most newspapers thought their role was to help voters and investors make good decisions.
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onlyrealcuzzo 1400 days ago
Did they? I think their role was always to make money.

Newspapers have a VERY long history of being owned and operated by the rich with a healthy portion of PR / propaganda.

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tuatoru 1400 days ago
In those days their readership was mostly people with at least a little money. They were investors' social media. Their incentives were to report the economic facts of life.
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