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Re:The gathering crisis in the UK by tuatoru on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:10PM (#32571564)
Tabloids have only existed for 150 years or so. Before them, most newspapers thought their role was to help voters and investors make good decisions.
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Re:The gathering crisis in the UK by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:33PM (#32571853)
Did they? I think their role was always to make money.

Newspapers have a VERY long history of being owned and operated by the rich with a healthy portion of PR / propaganda.

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Re:The gathering crisis in the UK by tuatoru on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:11PM (#32572276)
In those days their readership was mostly people with at least a little money. They were investors' social media. Their incentives were to report the economic facts of life.
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