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Just endless conspiracies. Which newsroom leaders get their money from what places? Why do leaders in government and business hate journalists so much and invest so much in discrediting them?

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https://www.emarketer.com/content/pharma-companies-increase-... https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/pharma-passes-tech-cl... Newsrooms, online or otherwise get a lot of money from Big Pharma Pharma has overtaken tech to become the second-largest industry for ad spending in 2023.

I'm not sure what your point is. Journalism needs funding, they must get it somewhere. Many journalism outlets have turned to subscriptions and donations, but whoever provides funding can be accused of influencing them. If they are funded by subscriptions, can they publish something their readers dislike?

The GGP comment said that journalists conspired with the country's leaders, not business.

The Washington Post being owned by Amazon for one

I believe he was referring to the constant barrage of anti-media rhetoric by Republicans.

You can't trust the main stream media, the legacy media is lying, etc

Why would they do this it the media is controlled by them?

Because their constituents are really so dumb they don't believe Fox News is mainstream media?

Republican voters can see many if not all of the same economic ills in society that Democrat voters do. In some cases they can even agree on the cause. I'm not going to stand next to how right-wing media (and its eager audience) may characterize "main stream media". But I do think the window of representation across how americans see and characterize ourselves through newsrooms in general has narrowed too far (in its seemingly-permanently partisan polarization) to sustain a rational democracy. Social media and the internet have provided the means to see this clearer than ever, in both great and terrible ways. A lot of contradictions in society about values we have and language we use as a people will have to resolve now.

All I can say is I hope we see a real economic policy response from democrats in congress, and fast. They seem to be fishing around for ideas in all the wrong pockets (foreign interests, domestic private interests, namely not the daily interests of the majority of their constituents).... but even rhetorically, it would be a start.

The Democrats have almost no control in congress. In the senate they can block bills.

Is this AI?

Dis you miss the concluding phrase of the comment?

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