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This has been true since the advent...I remember reading about the wars between Hamilton and Jefferson in the papers way back during the young years of the US.

None of this is new. It's way overamplified now, and everyone cries censorship and fascism when it suits them.

Remember the Maine!

Our expectations of objectivity (NPOV) is very recent and abnormal.

I'd like many many more Clay Shirky style analysis of print, broadcast, and social media, followed by a 100 crazy notions for novel NPOV organizations.

The Intercept has long been an activist paper. That's why Glenn joined. That doesn't mean they care about revenue over truth though

You mean helped found, not joined?

Which one are they? Activists or business people? Saying that they are both doesn’t hold water.

They aren't the same people.

The journalists are the activists.

The managers and owners are the businesspeople.

Their motivations are very different but their incentives are aligned.