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No
What am I missing?
Look at covid as an example there was different narratives coming from all over the place . People can't agree on anything. We have people who beileve in Scientology and flat earth ffs.
There is also the fact that media organizations are owned by someone or some group so they have their own take on things.
Then we have deepfakes and LLMs getting better by the day.
The media all the while has devolved into clickbait titles and tiktoks.
To top it off we are in an extinction event , the planet is fucked and the media sure isn't going to save us.
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For traditional media at least (television/radio/newspapers) I think this quote from Leslie Moonves sums up the death of journalism pretty succinctly:
Frankly, fascism is at the gates and these fuckwits are more concerned with how much money they can make in short term than being worried about whether the fascists plan on stringing them up by their necks for being the "wrong" kind of journalism, once Trump is a dictator.
Politically, socially, economically, and ecologically flat out fucked.
EDIT:
People often talk about 1984 or Brave New World, but honestly, your statement right here speaks deeply that we should be way more worried about a Fahrenheit 451 future, and a legion of Captain Beattys. Some choice Captain Beatty quotes follow:
Yes. It's a massive problem. Imagine if there was an article that covered one of the main reasons for that problem in depth; its past, present and future.