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In reply to the discussion: Wow, just wow! The Hartmann Report... [View all]Roy Rolling
(7,135 posts)Commercial newspapers in a competitive capitalist economy exist to turn a profit first, inform readers of whats important second. They are not actively trying to destroy democracy, it is a byproduct of selling shit stories of commercial interest to their readers.
It isnt the newspapers, its the unfair arena of competition. More money buys better media, so the most money wins the media battle in most cases.
That wasnt the case before Ronald Reagan and the Republicans ditched the Fairness Doctrine, which put the interests of the public over the interests of greedy capitalists. Now, any moron with $44 billion, for example, can simply buy an ideological competitor and run it into the ground. There is no need of fairness when fairness is measured in $$$.
Trashing the Post and Times is wont make the rules of capitalism different, and ignores whatever benefit many readers get from them.