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That's why we have multiple newspapers. The other ones can cover for deficiencies of a single one. The Post is doing great investigative journalism still, including this piece.


I understand the argument, but I find this a bit disturbing, as there are some topics that all of the oligarch-owned newspapers will not be willing to cover in depth. There is kind of a 'fringe' that will publish some details, i.e.

"(2020) Amazon: We Totally Don’t Want To Spy On You. Also Amazon: We Just Hired The Architect Of The NSA’s Mass Domestic Surveillance Program"

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/amazon-surveillance-nsa-d...

However, most people view that outlet as a highly partisan right-wing opinion-centric source (with rather limited sources), not at all the 'traditional unbiased news media' - which instead avoid the story, and instead just churn out a stream of pro-government, pro-corporate propaganda 24/7. This is pretty unhealthy IMO, since, ahem, 'democracy dies in darkness', and is the kind of behavior you see from Chinese and Russian state media, not from independent journalism.


Sounds like you need to start a newspaper and give unbiased news to the people and become super successful doing so! In the end there will always be a market for actual journalism and a market for sensational clickbait and a market for something in between. In my opinion outfits like the NYT, WP, Economist, WSJ etc are all super flawed but in combination are doing a pretty good job keeping government accountable.




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