• Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    It’s also because they can’t run headline after headline with “Trump lied” and expect to get clicks. News has become an engagement farm where in the past newspapers and other media were less, well, engaging.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, that’s definitely part of the problem, although some of it has to do with both sidesing everything in the name is neutrality. If 99% of scientists say climate change is happening and there’s like one scientist who’s clearly on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry, your job is to expose those links, not to give both sides equal time.

      They’re treating the Republican party like a normal party that acts in good faith, and they haven’t been like that since Nixon.