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The job of corporate media is to preserve the establishment, to perpetuate the status quo.

Sometimes, some token investigative journalism is allowed. (So long as those revelations do not challenge the status quo, natch.) Maintaining the charade of being the Forth Estate. Less so over time, as the "infotainment" biz model pioneered by USA Today transformed the industry. What kids today would call "enshitification."

FWIW, Propublica is a member of the so-called Fifth Estate, explaining why they can do what actual journalism.




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