1983: 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the US.<\/p>\n
1987: 29 companies.<\/p>\n
2012: 6 companies.<\/p>\n
2016: Those six companies are filtered out through one company, Facebook.<\/p>\n
There is so much concentration of power, I don\u2019t even know what to say. We just stare at it. It\u2019s virtually impossible to have an influential, independent voice today unless you have a Patreon and someone is bankrolling you. And even then, a powerful person can destroy your independence real quick it\u2019s a thing now<\/a> and worse, a lot of people think it\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n News are terrible. They are tailored and shaped to attract you because they rely on ads. They all use gross marketing techniques to make you click, even the most prestigious \u201cnews brands\u201d do that. We see it all the time. How come the NYT says that! I\u2019m going to share it and get mad!<\/em> I\u2019m not playing that game anymore, I\u2019m avoiding news especially on my phone when it\u2019s downtime I don\u2019t want to inject my eyes with awful, dreadful news.<\/p>\n Puppy cams are the shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1983: 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the US. 1987: 29 companies. 2012: 6 companies. 2016: Those six companies are filtered out through one company, Facebook. There is so much concentration of power, I don\u2019t even know what to say. We just stare at it. It\u2019s virtually impossible to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}