Fucking Corporate Media

:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

… Lester Holt calls Peru “America’s backyard”

… also, TIL FiveThirtyEight no longer exists

Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight, and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving | Nieman Journalism Lab

That alarm tends to be drowned out by clickbait, poorly-conducted polling, and GOP misdirection/misinformation often shared/promoted by mainstream news outlets:

:thinking: I guess the owners are rich enough not to have to worry about a single, state-controlled news source. However, journalists should understand that would cut their future careers very short, right?

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/16/newspapers-decline-hedge-funds-research

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