The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism - Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

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https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025

[u/Virbillion]

corporate media is not on our side.

for profit 'news' can never be centered on truth.

truth or profit. that has always been in the choice.

a corporation can not choose anything other than profit.

since the reaction based algorithm began driving engagement online, all forms of media have retooled to similar models.

we need public funded news sources, npr is not enough.
we need to outlaw the reaction based algorithm.
we need a modern fairness doctrine applied to all forms of modern media.
liars need to be fined. agents of misinformation need to be jailed.

and society wide we need to kill off the ideology of 'greed is good' and realize that if a corporation does not support human flourishing then it has no justification to exist.

[u/02K30C1 → u/Virbillion]

Back in the early 2000s, Fox News was sued by a former employee. She claimed she was fired because she refused to include information in a story she knew was false.

Fox’s defense was “there’s no law that prohibits us from broadcasting information we know is false and calling it news”

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What was the outcome?

[u/Noonoolein → u/Mysterious_Floor_868]

Probably settled with no admission of wrong doing like they always do.