• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t believe the news was always for-profit.

    No it wasn’t, and it would referred to as the Fourth Estate.

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      11 months ago

      Look at the history of newspapers. They started a war at one point to sell more papers. Which is how the term yellow journalism was coined.

      It’s true that the fairness doctrine made broadcast news better for the period when they were losing money, right up to about when Kennedy was assassinated, but that’s been long gone for decades, and only really helped radio and OTA TV.

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        11 months ago

        It’s true that the fairness doctrine made broadcast news better

        My comment that you replied to was related just to broadcast news, and not newspapers. The Big Three.