Techrights Does Not Wish to Blast the Media
If the media's role becomes the shifting of the public attention (away from high-profile scandals), is it really informing the public?
Media is important. Press is crucial. And it sometimes seems like we are eager to blast what's left of it. As we shall show later on, the one thing worse than a lack of media is the illusion that media exists when it fact it is owned by plutocrats and only gives the illusion of being really functional, impartial, effective - sort of like SRA and Action Fraud in the UK (they're not tackling abuse by law firms or commercial fraud, but they do help sell the idea that there is oversight, even if it's gaslighting or doesn't do anything at all). Consider this new example: WaPo Defends Data Centers—With Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them (guess who bought and now fully owns WaPo). This has been republished.
Inevitably, and not because we lack respect for the media in general, we'll call out publishers that actively or passively stonewall investigations, in effect hiding critical information from the public and, by doing so, end up enabling corruption. █