I think it's important to understand that news media doesn't create the news either. People create the news, something by creating something, sometimes by having accidents, and sometimes by starting wars. The news media just collects it - harvests it, if you will. Think of how much paywalled news (and journal) content is just a rephrasing of stuff that was already out there in the world. Moreover, I think it says a lot about society that we'll throw people into jail for copyright violations but really not be so concerned about the seriously problematic online content out there today (this reproduces a line of argumentation I heard on TWIG yesterday).
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