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Tom Starkweather's avatar

I entered the newspaper world briefly as a photojournalist intern at several papers in the early 2000s. It was clear then that things were not going well and morale was in decline. The hedge funds came for them, and just like what happened to Red Lobster they bought them out, gutted them and profited over the property. Advertising decline and Craig's List also happened.

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Edwin's avatar

I learned during the Tylenol scare, exactly how much newspapers don't know. And I educated at least one on the basics of it. Politics took a back seat then, to proper information. And there was another time they printed all the street corners you could buy drugs at, yes, brilliant, even what drug at most, heroin shocked everybody. Even with screwups like these, everybody read them, every day.

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Kenn Goodwin's avatar

Even our local newspaper is a communist propaganda rag

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Edwin's avatar

They wouldn't be allowed a license to operate if they weren't.

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Palamambron's avatar

I'm glad you understand. The entire media apparatus can be considered enemy infrastructure.

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Palamambron's avatar

That there was a century when good men could make an honest living in the newspaper business is proof that God works good from Satan's evil plans. In the 18th century, English newspapers developed as pure stock company propaganda. They were always published at a loss, but the expense was worth it for the propagandists who controlled them. And so it is today.

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Edwin's avatar

Thanks CoffeeCup_7 for the restack, it is appreciated.

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Edwin's avatar

And SLK, you're on a roll.

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Juju's avatar

And Collective Narcissism set in

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Edwin's avatar

I guess you could say that.

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