It is true that “market forces” used to be somewhat tempered by cultural ideals around how news media was supposed to operate. Recent decades have seen an increasingly profit driven management as US media has transformed into a much more consolidated industry under the control of fewer and fewer corporations. The US media has always been “capitalist”, but it also has a history of at least giving pretense to serving the public good.
Market forces were tempered by the US government with a policy called the " Fairness Doctrine"
It sounds like what all the news broadcasters say they currently do but in reality they don’t really give equal time to both sides of controversy they just frame things to seem like they talk about both sides while really only pushing the side of a controversy that they are on the side of.
I was with you until this… Taken over?
It is true that “market forces” used to be somewhat tempered by cultural ideals around how news media was supposed to operate. Recent decades have seen an increasingly profit driven management as US media has transformed into a much more consolidated industry under the control of fewer and fewer corporations. The US media has always been “capitalist”, but it also has a history of at least giving pretense to serving the public good.
Market forces were tempered by the US government with a policy called the " Fairness Doctrine"
It sounds like what all the news broadcasters say they currently do but in reality they don’t really give equal time to both sides of controversy they just frame things to seem like they talk about both sides while really only pushing the side of a controversy that they are on the side of.
People on Lemmy don’t know what the words they use mean. “Capitalist” just means “bad guy”.