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Re:The Worst Acquisition in History, Again by bluegatty on Friday March 06, 2026 @05:32PM (#47282016)
They're buying control of narrative on issues they care about; the history of media is mostly that. Newspapers were kind of invented for that reason. Our ideas of ethics in journalism are fairly modern.
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Re:The Worst Acquisition in History, Again by butterisgood on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:12PM (#47282347)
Indeed Edgar Allan Poe had a thing or two to say about newspapers. https://poestories.com/quotes.php (and scroll down a bit).

> “We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation — to make a point — than to further the cause of truth.”

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Re:The Worst Acquisition in History, Again by PearlRiver on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:44PM (#47283531)
We as citizens are supposed to keep ourselves informed and vote on things. Very few of us can fly all over the world to see things with our own two eyes so we have to outsource this fact finding. Priests, journalists, the goddamn CIA- they all have agendas.
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