| > Ask yourself why society at large has stopped trusting mainstream media Because certain political interests take the existence of a fact-based, independent power center as a threat to their own power? And so engineered a multi-decade campaign to indoctrinate people against the news/media, thus removing a roadblock to imposing their own often contrary-to-fact narratives? Pretending this happened in a vacuum or was grassroots ignores mountains of money deployed with specific intent over spans of time. > It can also mean that society as a whole needs to hold journalism accountable, and demand that they return to the role of the Fourth Column. I absolutely agree with this. If I had my druthers, the US would reinstate the fairness doctrine (abolished in 1987) and specifically the components requiring large media corporations to subsidize non-profit newsrooms as a public good. The US would be a better place if we banned 24/7 for-profit news. |