There was once a bipartisan consensus that media power had to be regulated if democracy were to survive.
  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    4·
    20 hours ago

    Public interest!? What are we, communists? It’s all about private profit. That’s how you know you live in a free country. True Freedom™ means prioritizing the maximization of profits for a relatively small number of owners and executives, over public interest, the environment, and even basic human decency and well being in general.

  • radiofreebc@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 day ago

    To be fair, news as a public service stopped being a thing the second “60 Minutes” started making a profit. After that, all news programming had to make the station money.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      There was a time when the US news were required to report the facts in a neutral manner, Raegan got rid of that requirenment.