Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by nickthemagicman on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:20AM (#23939823)

Another way to put this..how much does the news media influence people?

In the U.S. 90% of the news media is held by 5 conglomerates.

You get creepy stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI&feature=emb_logo

Makes you wonder how reliable the news media is in the U.S.

I can't even imagine how bad it is in countries where oligarchs control things.

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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by cowpig on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:43AM (#23940091)

The thing you're linking to is a phenomenon specific to the Sinclair Broadcast Group[0], a partisan media organization that is actively attempting to undermine local journalism in the US and replace it with neo-conservative propaganda.

To compare any of the major US news conglomerates to this would be a false equivalence.

Also, any comment on the centralization of media in the US that doesn't mention Facebook is outdated at this point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by manquer on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:54PM (#23941737)

Controlling media and influencing it social or otherwise is a concern when media is a oligarchy , social media is also an oligarchy , there are few players who dominate most of the readership .

The big American conglomerates are just as partisan as Sinclair , there is still some professionalism that they have not devolved to Sinclair level.

However trends in recent past point towards only downward movement simply because of economics , you make more money telling people what they want to hear.

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