Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser...
by ethbr0 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:27AM
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The issue is that modern news (and the economic model that backs it) is a mix of entertainment, education, and investigation.
Even assuming all leads were pursued equally, and all stories were published, entertainment is still highly partisan.
Which, presumably, is why we saw partisanship jump when the entertainment component increased in revenue importance (90s talk radio, then 2000s competitive 24/7 news).
Fox News was objectively brilliant in that they saw this coming, which is why they went ahead and devoted a huge chunk of their airtime to entertainment-weighted programming.
Even assuming all leads were pursued equally, and all stories were published, entertainment is still highly partisan.
Which, presumably, is why we saw partisanship jump when the entertainment component increased in revenue importance (90s talk radio, then 2000s competitive 24/7 news).
Fox News was objectively brilliant in that they saw this coming, which is why they went ahead and devoted a huge chunk of their airtime to entertainment-weighted programming.