Summary: The New York Times and other corporate media continue to present themselves as defenders of democracy but fail to confront their complicity in the structures undermining democratic empowerment in the United States.
The press mentioned in the 1st amendment at the time of the writing of the Constitution was owned by a very few capitalists, a dozen printers of weekly 4-page newspapers and pamphlets to keep colonists informed. A lot has changed since then. There have been no good alternative insitutional structures for media, and now we have tremendous atomization of information and experiences, with the corporate-owned MSM now becoming less relevant to the lives of citzens, and individual writers - for instance on substack, now just want to charge a subscription fee for the benefit of the single shareholder for their publication, themselves. Although, Substack does take a piece of the pie for providing the platform for individuals to write.
The press mentioned in the 1st amendment at the time of the writing of the Constitution was owned by a very few capitalists, a dozen printers of weekly 4-page newspapers and pamphlets to keep colonists informed. A lot has changed since then. There have been no good alternative insitutional structures for media, and now we have tremendous atomization of information and experiences, with the corporate-owned MSM now becoming less relevant to the lives of citzens, and individual writers - for instance on substack, now just want to charge a subscription fee for the benefit of the single shareholder for their publication, themselves. Although, Substack does take a piece of the pie for providing the platform for individuals to write.
https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-9?mediaType=Article
https://medium.com/@jylterps/bad-faith-communication-the-broken-media-and-information-ecosystem-and-the-consequences-for-13c52951d730