>>11060877>>11060640Journalism should be critical and well researched, not an ad and pander to any one specific person/place/thing.
Shit literally changed after big companies got even bigger by buying up tv/radio/internet news outlets when the telecommunication act was passed in the 90s. Clickbait became the norm because those giant companies weren't happy with their existing audience, because growth should be infinite and exponential year after year.
So something could be popular and making tens of millions of dollars a year, but because a giant conglomerate needs to satisfy shareholders and justify their CEO's $90million pay raise, they need even MORE of that every year.
This is why the 1:18 Marvel Universe line was killed by Hasbro. They wanted to funnel collectors into the more expensive 1:12 lines, so they sabotaged the 1:18 figures by cutting the budget in half and accidently killed it because even kids didn't want budget looking shit.
Same shit with DC Direct. They were obviously making enough profits to continue producing more and more products every year, even expanding the budget of toys to make them super articulated, but WB was in trouble and cutting a niche collector subsidary making tens of millions of dollars a year gave them more wiggle room to justify the cost of moving their offices across the United States for a better tax credit.
This is why we're not allowed to have good things and wanting good things means you're in the way of a company's goals.
