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Six perspectives is a bit better than one. And that's only counting mainstream media, there's plenty of good independent journalism.
Is it six different perspectives or is it one perspective by six conglomerates that are colluding?
The latter. Six billionaires' opinions are not diverse enough.
Is it really those 6 billionaires opinions in every one of the stories their media presents every day? Seems like a stretch. I could see them imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don't want out, but colluding to control the narrative gives them too much credit I think. I'm lucky enough to have some decent independent journalism in my area, but I would love if there was more!
imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don’t want out
That's it. That's all they need to do to influence a country or population at the scale that billionaires operate at. They all have very similar opinions and preferences (otherwise they wouldn't be billionaires).
That so e people think that a publicly funded editorially independent press is somehow worse that this is maddening.
It's also not a zero sum game. We can have both, yet somehow some people think it's one or the other.
I hear you. And I agree, I would love more independently edited press out there. PBS and NPR seem under attack regularly by the right, but they do a pretty good job of being unbiased overall.