I've listened to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, before, and I've realized that TV news is pretty much not newsworthy, but it was nice of her to point out exactly how much the news isn't reporting news. Both nice, and saddening.
If it's pretty much universally agreed that we need a steady diet of news to have a proper democracy, the lack of real information and breadth in the media puts our democracy, in general, in a terrible place. How are people supposed to make informed choices about who runs the government and what that government does with the information? And, if internet media is only feeding us the news stories that it thinks we'll click on, rather something truly informative and perhaps outside our normal proclivities, how are we ever supposed to expand our thoughts beyond our own preferences?
For example, this is not really news:
So why was this produced solely on the internet? Who owns this? What is it selling?
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