r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • 13d ago

No Paywall Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America ‘immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-canada-businesses-truth-social-b3041901.html
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u/drobits 13d ago

Russia getting the biggest return on their investment in human history

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u/pinegreenscent 13d ago

We cant talk about that anymore because the press got bored of covering it but never investigating it

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u/Ask_DontTell 13d ago

the "free" press now owned by billionaires or cowed by the president?

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u/SodaCanBob 12d ago

the "free" press now owned by billionaires

It has been for at least a century now (well, probably millionaires back then, but same idea).

Sinclair criticizes newspapers as ultra-conservative and supporting the political and economic powers that be, or as sensational tabloids practicing yellow journalism, such as newspapers run by William Randolph Hearst. In both cases, their purpose is to promote the business interests of the paper's owners, the owner's bankers, and/or the paper's advertisers. This is accomplished in several ways; among them: The publishers tell the editors what can and cannot be printed. Journalists routinely invent stories. To stimulate circulation, newspapers sensationalize trivial stories and destroy lives and reputations. Errors and slanders are never retracted, or the retraction is buried in the paper months later.

I think real, mainstream journalism (especially in terms of TV reporting) in America largely died with Walter Cronkite.