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    4 months ago

    the media:

    we’ll stop naming school shooters due to copycat killers

    also the media:

    his name was thomas matthew and here’s a 90 minute special about his preferred breakfast cereal

    👀 👀 👀

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        The media is not one thing. Media is plural. Good luck getting “the media” to agree on anything.

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          They sure can agree on a few things:

          • Ads make money.
          • More ads make more money.
          • Money.
          • More money.
          • 🦀 money money money 🦀
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              If they’re privately held, yes.
              If they’re publicly traded, yes.
              If they’re publicly funded, also yes, but only because they wouldn’t exist otherwise.

              Even if they don’t say it, it’s always a priority :)

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              Yet I feel like every time I listen to them they’re basically running an ad for a movie/TV show/book through a fluff interview with someone who worked on it.

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                But there is no incentive to get more money than they need to operate, because the shareholders and board don’t profit from it personally. NPR income is spent over 92% on program funding and 7% on administrative.

                It’s basically run the same way as Wikipedia. If enough people donated, there would be no ads at all.

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                  They run programming that they suspect will get them money, either through donations or government funding- because for those working to get raises the organization needs to have money. (As well as other reasons of course)

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                    You’re accusing a highly respected and frequently audited charity of embezzlement? Or you think from their public documents that they pay their employees too much?

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      If this encourages these psychos to stop shooting children and shoot politicians instead, I’ll take that trade.

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        you know what, fuck yeah. People can only afford so many bullets these days, so just like Halloween warnings avout drugs and the reality of who the fuck would waste their hard earned drug money on random kids, why should anyone waste bullet money on them either. shoot a politician, save a child.

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      Noticed this too. They just plaster his face and have analysis and stories all over youtube and news. I thought US are already over this yet here we are.

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      I guess they made the call that releasing this information is the lesser of two evils, the other one being to withhold it and to let speculation run wild in a heated political climate, in which one side is not shy about threats of violence.