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We have always lived in a world where news outlets owned by the wealthy elite are allowed to set policy and agenda at their editorial whims
Seriously. Rich media barons have literally started wars to sell newspapers.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism
Very true. But the vast proliferation of eyewitness account voices (everyone can publish worldwide now) should counter that and it has-and-hasn’t. The difference isn’t just in the wealth of the owners.
The fundamental premise of an objective truth is gone. (Let’s just take the existence of an objective truth for granted for now so we can talk about media, but yes that’s an interesting philosophical discussion too.)
Yes, and no. When there’s only a fews news sources it can be more difficult to define the narrative. Because the wealthy power has to use “respectable journalism” to do it. You know the whole source-based who, what, when, etc. That wasn’t as easy as it is today.
Think of it like this: russia started the lie that AIDS was created by the US and spread in Africa by the WHO. Today, they’d just use a troll army to tweet it, and it’d be in the headlines tomorrow.
Back then they had to buy printed papers in India to run it, have those used as “sources” and then convince the NYT to run the story. Which they couldn’t really do because the NYT said “well, what’s your source for this?” And when they couldn’t get a satisfactory answer, the story died.
It’s different now. Very different.
Are the wealthy still behind it? Yeah, but “it” is very different to what it was. News wasn’t worth billions back then. People who ran it weren’t usually MBAs who had never chased a lead in their lives.