Let's see.... "Fake news" is often described as "outlets dedicated only to spinning news in a certain direction in order to sell advertising."
Which would mean all commercial news is fake.
Put it that way, and it becomes clear why no news outlet really tackles any issues like income inequality, decline of labor unions (and the ongoing war thereon), tax breaks for corporations, all of which (and more!) that don't fit with the corporate advertisers' agendas.
What we're seeing now is a media complex that was used to access in the previous administrations, but is being shut out now by one that realizes the media is so weakened by the flight of advertising to the web that they haven't the resources to challenge their exclusion.
Seriously, when newspapers are strong, with an adequate stable of reporters following up as many leads as they can get, press conferences are useful as minor diversions. With reporters being laid off nearly every year, there is no practical need to divert their attentions, as they don't have enough attention/resources to follow stories damaging to the administration anyhoo.
We've been locked in a system whereby ads pay for news gathering for over 150 years, ever since steam power enabled mass production/distribution of papers. The advertisers buy themselves some immunity from bad coverage, and the public mostly benefits (except where advertisers are complicit in big stories). That system is gutted; F#c$Book and Google are pulling down the ad moneys and producing nothing in the way of news.
We need to tax advertising and divert that money to papers; as they always have, the radio and telly outlets will pick up on newspaper stories and amplify them. Once good stories start to pour out, Trumpian shenanigans will trickle to the ridiculous.
Which would mean all commercial news is fake.
Put it that way, and it becomes clear why no news outlet really tackles any issues like income inequality, decline of labor unions (and the ongoing war thereon), tax breaks for corporations, all of which (and more!) that don't fit with the corporate advertisers' agendas.
What we're seeing now is a media complex that was used to access in the previous administrations, but is being shut out now by one that realizes the media is so weakened by the flight of advertising to the web that they haven't the resources to challenge their exclusion.
Seriously, when newspapers are strong, with an adequate stable of reporters following up as many leads as they can get, press conferences are useful as minor diversions. With reporters being laid off nearly every year, there is no practical need to divert their attentions, as they don't have enough attention/resources to follow stories damaging to the administration anyhoo.
We've been locked in a system whereby ads pay for news gathering for over 150 years, ever since steam power enabled mass production/distribution of papers. The advertisers buy themselves some immunity from bad coverage, and the public mostly benefits (except where advertisers are complicit in big stories). That system is gutted; F#c$Book and Google are pulling down the ad moneys and producing nothing in the way of news.
We need to tax advertising and divert that money to papers; as they always have, the radio and telly outlets will pick up on newspaper stories and amplify them. Once good stories start to pour out, Trumpian shenanigans will trickle to the ridiculous.
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