From @froomkin.bsky.social's Press Watch: "The central problem is this: Our most important news organizations operate according to a business model that singularly values affluent customers. And that business model affects everything they do." (Part 1 of 2) https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-commercial-news-industry-is-incapable
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They get paid to gather eyeballs for advertisers. Every decision they make will be to optimize the number and the value of those eyeballs.
If you're expecting them to pursue some noble cause, you're just wrong.