"Atlantic Contributor Wants Taxpayers to Save Media from ‘Extinction Level Event’ "

[the_leper_colony]

Nolte: Atlantic Contributor Wants Taxpayers to Save Media from 'Extinction Level Event'

 

[Pál_K]

The Atlantic and a lot of media, cable news, newspapers, are certainly guilty of extreme bias, lying, and deliberate disinformation. Breitbart's list of hoaxes in that article is a good example.

However, the extinction of these traditional forms of media isn't because of their lies, in my opinion, it's because of demographics: young to middle-age people are getting their news, scanty as it may be, from other sources - and the same lies and bias is still there.

I don't know anyone under the age of 60 that watches cable news, traditional network news, or reads newspapers. Likewise, many people I interact with who are in their 20's, 30's, 40's, are oblivious to current events: they have too many distractions. This is why a famous entertainer, totally ignorant on the facts of many issues, can have a dramatic effect on popular opinion and beliefs.

 

[Cotton McKnight]

The Atlantic's Paul Farhi states "The news industry has been in steady decline for two decades. Expecting some kind of free-market-based turnaround is lunacy. If journalism is essential for preserving democratic self-government, perhaps only democratic self-government can preserve journalism." There is plenty of ad money out there. Just look at the people on YouTube and TikTok that make millions providing content that users want. How about instead of asking for a government bailout to save your job, you provide a product that users want. Stop trying to force your idea of what users should want on them. Provide unbiased news or provide both sides of a story and let the user decide for themselves. Stop trying to dictate the narrative and decide for us.

 

[contender]

Well said Cotton!