• @GreenKnight23
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    233 hours ago

    Private ownership of a news outlet breaks every definition of “free” in “free press”.

    A “free press” no longer exists.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 hours ago

      Eh… no? Most free press is privately owned. Just not by billionaires who influence the content.

    • @Hugin
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      52 hours ago

      So government owned news is better?

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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        127 minutes ago

        Maybe non-profit would be best. Incentives to encourage good journalism, but not trying to raise the bottom line every year, chopping costs and spamming mass amounts of AI garbage because I’d bet 100 shitty articles is worth more than 1 good article for their bottom line.

        Easy access links to the journalists other works, peer reviews from other non-profit and about me profiles can also help people discern bias.

        I’m no expert though, so I’m sure someone has tried it and found making money is better for their paychecks

        • @WoahWoah
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          16 minutes ago

          What if it already exists, but you, like many others, don’t read it and instead continue to passively consume the very media you’re complaining about? Making better journalism doesn’t mean multiple generations of people hooked on social-media-feed dopamine hits will read it.

      • @Furbag
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        152 hours ago

        When the billionaires who own the media and the highest level of government are in bed together so long as the government continues to tailor it’s policies to ensure that the wealthy stay wealthy, then the line is so blurred it might as well not exist.