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Re:Why does science news suck so much? by wutbrodo on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:19PM (#31801882)
The profit motive does a poor job of handling the externalities journalism should be addressing. But govt control of the media landscape to the degree you're talking about can easily hamstring the important adversarial function journalism has vis-a-vis govt.

It's a very hard problem, and there are no obvious or pat solutions.

Re:Why does science news suck so much? by bsenftner on Sunday June 19, 2022 @05:10PM (#31803541)
Not government control, more regulation in the form of transparencies towards what gets reported and what does not, protections for investigative news journalists and whistleblowers, and no more masquerading entertainment as news journalism. Just as cigarettes have warnings about lung health, Fox News should have warnings about "not journalism, entertainment and the political opinion of Robert Murdoch".