"Where's Mitch McConnell?" mystery exposes media failures
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The lack of hard news about the Kentucky senator's condition shows the sad state of contemporary journalism

Don’t expect members of my profession to track down the story. We’re too busy listening to Donald Trump berate NATO, lie about his investments, revive the Red Scare and call Iranian leaders “scum,” while at the same time declaring we’ve defeated Iran in a war everyone believes we shouldn’t have started in the first place. (For those keeping track, Trump has claimed he has ended the conflict close to 40 times. I can’t count how often he’s “completely obliterated” the Islamic Republic’s military, even though they keep firing missiles and sending drones against us.)

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23·
    6 hours ago

    The simple reason why the facts aren’t known is that the American public doesn’t care enough to tune in, or at least those who run the media corporations don’t think the American public cares. Put another way: There’s no money in it.

    I’m not convinced the motives of the media companies are profit driven these days. But it’s hard to argue against the perspective of a journalist.

    • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      131·
      6 hours ago

      “When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”

      -H.L. Mencken

      • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        6 hours ago

        Money gets you media companies. Media companies get you power. Which gets you money…

        I guess my point was that I don’t really think these decisions are motivated by increasing profit to the media companies. That they’re happy to take a loss in this one investment to further their other goals.