Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed

Re:Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oi... by yubblegum on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:15PM (#47311035)

Sorry, have to call b.s. on lack of funds. Our media are owned by a very few, a handful, of corporations. And this happened before Google even existed. It happened in the 90s.

> business model

I don't know, is this willful ignorance? Press is political ...

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Re:Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oi... by ethbr1 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:52AM (#47321547)

A prior ill doesn't excuse a subsequent one.

That Sinclair, Nexstar, CC/iHeartMedia were allowed to consolidate in the 90s is bad.

That Google et al. decimated newspaper revenue from the mid-00s onwards without replacing their newsrooms is worse.*

I wouldn't have as big a gripe if Google or Facebook had started their own news bureaus and funded them with their profits. It still would have been a rounding error on their balance sheet.

But instead they destroyed a social good, took their bonuses, and called it a day.

* See 2007, the year Google was allowed to buy DoubleClick https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers...

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