Your particular life might be, but it's likely because you are comfortable.
The point of news is social change or social control (depending on who owns it), and the kind of news you lament being gone was never actually neutral. It also was in no way how news started.
You want your power company to not dump coal waste in rivers? Get some press.
You want buildings to be retired to be accessible because you are a wheelchair user? Get the press to care about it.
If you are a service member or a NYC firefighter who wants the government to be accountable for giving you cancer because of burn pits or 9/11 toxic waste? Hammer the gov in the press
You want to stop the NSA from spying on Americans? Leak insider docs to the press.
The point of news is social change or social control (depending on who owns it), and the kind of news you lament being gone was never actually neutral. It also was in no way how news started.
You want your power company to not dump coal waste in rivers? Get some press.
You want buildings to be retired to be accessible because you are a wheelchair user? Get the press to care about it.
If you are a service member or a NYC firefighter who wants the government to be accountable for giving you cancer because of burn pits or 9/11 toxic waste? Hammer the gov in the press
You want to stop the NSA from spying on Americans? Leak insider docs to the press.
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