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Re:I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine by threeseed on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:56PM (#13981092)
"Remember, the media are not in the business of keeping the public informed".

This is a factually baseless statement that you invented and then decided to make an entire point around. The media is not a cohesive entity. It's the equivalent of saying "all people are murderers".

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Re:I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:24PM (#13981348)
It's nothing like that. It's clarifying the definition of a group.

The set of people involved in "the media" are, by definition, in the business of creating and publishing media (news, opinion pieces, entertainment, etc). Success in this business does not require keeping the public informed, but it does require selling content. Thus, the group as a whole is in the business of selling content, and not necessarily in the business of keeping the public informed.

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