The US has for-profit news. As a result, the point is to turn a profit. If a car chase is more profitable than talking about the Epstein files, a car chase will be what they show you. If it’s more profitable to keep people angry and misinformed than it is to tell them the truth, then they’ll make their viewers angry. If you want the news to have a goal like informing citizens or voters, you want publicly funded media like ABC, BBC, CBC, FBC, JBC, SBC, and the other ones that don’t end in BC: france.tv, ARD, RTE, NPO, etc.
It would be really neat if the US finally realized that not everything should be for-profit, and especially keeping the public educated and informed was something that was important enough that it couldn’t just rely on for-profit companies. But, the US has always thought that was propaganda and communism, and the only way to have objective and unbiased news was to have unwavering faith in capitalism.
The US has for-profit news. As a result, the point is to turn a profit. If a car chase is more profitable than talking about the Epstein files, a car chase will be what they show you. If it’s more profitable to keep people angry and misinformed than it is to tell them the truth, then they’ll make their viewers angry. If you want the news to have a goal like informing citizens or voters, you want publicly funded media like ABC, BBC, CBC, FBC, JBC, SBC, and the other ones that don’t end in BC: france.tv, ARD, RTE, NPO, etc.
It would be really neat if the US finally realized that not everything should be for-profit, and especially keeping the public educated and informed was something that was important enough that it couldn’t just rely on for-profit companies. But, the US has always thought that was propaganda and communism, and the only way to have objective and unbiased news was to have unwavering faith in capitalism.