**** Elections thread *****

[CoccoBill]

News media outlets run businesses, they want to make profits. In this day and age this means online articles, money is made by clickbait headlines. If you want a successful business, you need to have big headlines and fast, and a lot of them. Consumers aren't interested in investigative journalism, so there's no point for the media to invest in them. This "fake news" thing affects every single media outlet out there who have this business model, to varying degrees. Capitalism fail.

[wufwugy]

News media outlets run businesses, they want to make profits. In this day and age this means online articles, money is made by clickbait headlines. If you want a successful business, you need to have big headlines and fast, and a lot of them. Consumers aren't interested in investigative journalism, so there's no point for the media to invest in them. This "fake news" thing affects every single media outlet out there who have this business model, to varying degrees. Capitalism fail.

I agree with everything (cept the capitalism part, you know me). Despite the many and deep flaws now, it's much better than it used to be, which has happened through capitalism. What we're looking at is lots of (mostly partial) failures within a capitalist system that ultimately contribute to growing robustness of the system.

You're totally right about how the clickbait incentives are driving the day-to-day, and how (almost) nobody is unaffected. AFAICT, gotnews.com is not clickbaity and has a stellar track record of breaking stories accurately. I don't know everything about them tho.