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0 pointstuatoru3y ago0 comments

Tabloids have only existed for 150 years or so. Before them, most newspapers thought their role was to help voters and investors make good decisions.

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onlyrealcuzzo3y ago

Did they? I think their role was always to make money.

Newspapers have a VERY long history of being owned and operated by the rich with a healthy portion of PR / propaganda.

tuatoruOP3y ago

In those days their readership was mostly people with at least a little money. They were investors' social media. Their incentives were to report the economic facts of life.

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