There are carve outs—independent media viewed Trump with a jaundiced eye—some major networks had various reporters who did their jobs speaking truth to power. But overall, the media failed.
Maybe it was corporate, billionaire, and hedge fund ownership. The demise of mom + pops.
Defectors from an internet comment factory employing about 250 people, many of whom, surprisingly, turned out to be not brainwashed propagandists, but ordinary people in search of money.-@EuromaidanPress 2014 euromaidanpress.com/2014/11/02/the…
Around 250 people work 12-hour shifts, writing in blogs 24/7..This is a full-cycle production: some write the posts, others comment on them. Most often they comment each other in order to boost the ratings.—@EuromaidanPress 2014
By the way, they don’t tell you what you will be doing until you start. They tell you you’ll be writing in a blog, like a housewife but in an office. Yeah, a housewife wakes up and starts writing about Ukraine, right.—@EuromaidanPress 2014