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America's biggest, most important news organizations have, over the past 25 years, fallen prey to merger after merger, acquisition after acquisition... to the point where they are, now, tiny parts of immeasurably larger corporate entities - entities whose primary business often has nothing to do with news. Entities that may, at any given time, have literally hundreds of regulatory issues before multiple arms of the government concerning a vast array of business interests. These are entities that, as publicly-held and traded corporations, have as their overall, reigning mandate: Provide a return on shareholder value. Increase profits. And not over time, not over the long haul, but quarterly. One might ask just where the news fits into this model. And if you really need an answer, you can turn on your television, where you will see the following: Political analysis reduced to in-studio shouting matches between partisans armed with little more than the day's talking points. Precious time and resources wasted on so-called human-interest stories, celebrity fluff, sensationalist trials, and gossip. A proliferation of "news you can use" that amounts to thinly-disguised press releases for the latest consumer products. And, though this doesn't get said enough, local news, which is where most Americans get their news, that seems not to change no matter what town or what city you're in... so slavish is its adherence to the "happy talk" formula and the dictum that, "If it bleeds, it leads." ...In the current model of corporate news ownership, the incentive to produce good and valuable news is simply not there. Good news, quality news of integrity, requires resources and it requires talent. These things are expensive, these things eat away at the bottom line. Years ago, in the eighties and the ninetie
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