Donald Trump’s signature has evolved over the years, but when signing just his first name, he often includes the same flourish at the end.
Donald Trump’s signature has evolved over the years, but when signing just his first name, he often includes the same flourish at the end.
Trump can say the sky is dark green and the fucking press would legitimize it by letting him debate it publicly for years while the owners sit back and collect the ratings and advertiser money.
The entire structure of capitalism is fundamentally broken.
I’m sitting here wondering what approach would be better to media.
Statefunded media isn’t much better because authoritarians will convert it to statefunded propaganda.
Corporate media will only ever do/publish what is most profitable, so they’ll side with whatever viewpoint gives the most clicks.
Non-profit media can’t necesarily compete, since they lack the needed funding to actually get to the stories.
The answer is obviously to implement proper laws forcing media to have an unbiased angle on every story, but who will enforce that? Some government entity? Then we’re back to statecontrolled propaganda.
I guess in the end making authoritarian-proof media isn’t really possible…
This is of course all isolated within the current capitalist system. Profit or lack of funding isn’t an issue with other economic models, but those will have different issues I’m not gonna bother diving into right now.