Been going on for decades. They stopped caring about journalistic ethics when readers no longer were their source of income. Classifieds used to pay the bills. People used to buy newspapers. Hell, some towns even had two dailies.
Craigslist made classified ads obsolete and now newspapers and news shows are funded by corporate sponsors, with minimal income arriving through paid subscribers.
Basically, follow the money. They're paid to dispense a particular worldview and only rarely does that payment come from the consumer.
Mainstream media is dead in the water and has been for a decade.
Bill Clinton's "Summer of Love" allowing cable providers to map out who owned what section of the country, was just one step. Trump approved huge mergers as well. AT&T with Verizon? Something like that.
Expect continued fracturing of sources and plummeting quality as access is expensive and we have 10,000 poorly funded news sites instead of 20 competitive ones.
Dead n gone:
Society of Professional Journalists - Code of Ethics:
Been going on for decades. They stopped caring about journalistic ethics when readers no longer were their source of income. Classifieds used to pay the bills. People used to buy newspapers. Hell, some towns even had two dailies.
Craigslist made classified ads obsolete and now newspapers and news shows are funded by corporate sponsors, with minimal income arriving through paid subscribers.
Basically, follow the money. They're paid to dispense a particular worldview and onlybrarely does that payment come from the consumer.
Mainstream media is dead in the water and has been for a decade.
Expect continued fracturing of sources and plummeting quality as access is expensive and we have 10,000 poorly funded news sites instead of 20 competitive ones.
Society of Professional Journalists - Code of Ethics: