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Why don't the news media report the reasons why migrants come to the UK on boats? (feddit.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

I am guessing that it is (1) news outlets get main income from advertisers (2) advertisers pay 'per view' (3) news outlets create 'clickbait' stories to get lots of views (4) £millions changes hands via clickbait (5) clickbait uses crude emotion to hook engagement so evoking fear, envy, anger, lust, pity etc are what 'news' is about, not in-depth nuanced reports based on facts, arguments, reason, truth and other relatively unemotional stuff. You can do 'hot takes' or you can do investigative journalism. Britain used to be global leader on high quality journalism. Now we just churn out mindless, emotionally manipulative, 'soap opera' crud.