Your claim has no validity unless you really believe Wikileaks would not have also published Trump leaks if they had their hands on them.
Yes, it's likely the Russians are feeding them their info. But so fucking what? Wikileaks is just doing their job, and they have no obligation to play nice to Clinton while she has run a regime that has systematically attacked and denied Assange's ability to get a fair go in America.
Not to mention how much easier it was to centrally control the narrative of a society to dupe them into believing things they would have a hard time getting behind now (like the war on drugs...)
The obvious answer to this is extending public broadcasting funding to private outlets. Sadly there are too many techno-libertarians out there to see this great techno-socialist solution.
It depends. In some ways people could argue that a rise in loneliness is linked to increasingly lower levels of community interdependence and engagement.
I know this is garbage to the ears of Silicon Valley types, but I think a lot of people in rural areas would agree with it.
I always thought one way to break this problem was to socialize newspaper and media profits into a pool.
Assuming you could actually track levels of readership without gaming in the network -- and I concede that's a big if, then in theory you could create a public-broadcasting like arrangement where private actors receive public funds in proportion to their popularity.
I would personally love to pay a tax to help independent media thrive if I new it could support those who do the best at gaining eyeballs.
Yes, it's likely the Russians are feeding them their info. But so fucking what? Wikileaks is just doing their job, and they have no obligation to play nice to Clinton while she has run a regime that has systematically attacked and denied Assange's ability to get a fair go in America.