How can you know what news is real?
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How can you know what news is real?
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#2You need to fork this: https://github.com/mdiplo/Medias_francais
Google Translate:
>French media: who owns what?
>Property relations between the French media and their main shareholders
>The data is organized in two tables:
>1. 'medias_francais.tsv' contains all shareholders (natural or legal persons) and media represented on the map
>2. 'relations_medias_francais.tsv' details the capital links between these shareholders and the groups or media they own
>Last updated November, 2019
>Technical indication: for those who wish to participate in updating the database by making a pull request, make sure that the file is encoded in UTF-8 with unix line breaks so that we can merge it all without conflict.
Edit: I wish this was all added to Wikidata so we can chart this for every country but also map the transnational stake-holding.
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#4Is this really that surprising? Billionaires owning vanity projects isn’t news when they’re football teams, why is it when they’re corporate news organizations?
Also, if there was ever a time to be concerned about the owners of media organizations controlling the narrative this is not it. The media, and the ruling class more generally, being pissed off that the peasants are daring to speak back and have their own non approved opinions is behind the never ending stream of invective directed at the big tech companies[1].
Martin Gurri’s book on this loss of control, The Revolt of the Public, is amazing by the way[2].
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/19/the-co...
[2] https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/martin-gurri-revolt-...
https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/book-review-revo...
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#5The info-graphic posted in the article links back originates from titlemax.com [0]. Their article at least list the owners of some outlets. I've got to say I am a bit surprised to see such an blogpost from a lending corp. Their wiki article suggest they faced criticism in the past for predatory lending [1], I wonder if this is their version of getting back at those who reported on them, or what their intention for that topic is?
[0]: https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/who-owns... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TitleMax
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#6"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets"
Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better
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#7I've always felt news organisations should be legally required to be non-for-profit and wages capped at some sensible multiple of the national average wage (e.g 6x)
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#8I get my news from PewDiePie
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#9"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets" Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better
antisemitism.
Really, I didn't notice anything. Care to explain?
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#10"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets" Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better
I only skimmed the article but couldn't find anything antisemitic. What did I miss?