Fake News from Left-leaning Sites

[Benton]

(05-06-2017, 08:38 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Should the news even be about making money?  In a quest for profitability, it kind of seems that Journalism has lost it's integrity for presenting the truth, in a bid to be simply more entertaining.

Journalism isn't about making money. Lots of people do it to tell the stories that need to be told without ever making anything off of it. Small papers (like the ones I run) rely heavily off citizen journalists, people interested in communities or sports or politics or whatever.

But capitalism is capitalism. To pay the bills, you've got to generate revenue. Some people long ago figured out you can do more than just pay the bills off news, you can make a lot of money. So just like the guys that figured out you can make a lot of money if you pay some football players and sell tickets, media moguls realized they could get people to tell stories and make money off selling them.