In time of climate change, skyrocketing wealth inequality, pandemic, and global strife, it's good that the New York Times decided to focus today on what really matters…
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…unabashedly laundering the reputation of a convicted fraudster whose wide-scale "medical startup" con (enabled in no small part by puff pieces in NYT in the first place) destroyed a lot of trust in medical progress, Elizabeth Holmes.
sigh 🙄
Unrelated: I wonder why people mistrust the #media. It's a mystery!
@rysiek NYT has done similar things of whitewashing crooks and con people, or printing straight propaganda several times. Apparently they have a price and if you can match it then you are golden.
Looking up how those are funded who very loudly call for mistrusting other media creates much worse worries, though …
Communication is a requirement for a working society. Leaving its financing prone to be dominated by a market of propaganda/advertisements does not sound like a good idea.
It’s as old as the printed newspaper, though, so there are some protections in place. @rysiek
They did an album with the sleeve-notes featuring 'an arrow diagram purporting to represent the links between four major record labels (AOL Time-Warner, BMG, Sony, Vivendi Universal) and various arms manufacturers.'
@indieterminacy@ArneBab@rysiek yeah I could say a lot about BBC as well and it’s supposed high standards in reporting. It is no accident that viewership has plummeted in the past ten years.
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