As soon as the debate ended, CNN began post-game coverage
This is the problem with US politics. Turn your elections into a sports match and people are gonna tribe up. Total circus.
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As soon as the debate ended, CNN began post-game coverage
This is the problem with US politics. Turn your elections into a sports match and people are gonna tribe up. Total circus.
Turn the news into a for-profit industry, and you get competition for eyes.
Turn the news into a for-profit industry
No more Fourth Estate for you!
While the news has always been a for-profit industry, Citizens United turned election years into billion dollar windfalls for news outfits.
I’m pretty sure that’s why USA Today owns almost all the local papers in my state. They can float the payrolls between election years, or cut a bunch of local reporters and send their own around following primaries in the state with the most campaign money each week.
I don’t believe the news was always for-profit. Early television news actually cost the station money and was provided as a service for the public good. Things took a turn for the worse sometime in the sixties, accelerating through the eighties and devolving into the shitshow we have today.
I don’t believe the news was always for-profit.
No it wasn't, and it would referred to as the Fourth Estate.
Look at the history of newspapers. They started a war at one point to sell more papers. Which is how the term yellow journalism was coined.
It’s true that the fairness doctrine made broadcast news better for the period when they were losing money, right up to about when Kennedy was assassinated, but that’s been long gone for decades, and only really helped radio and OTA TV.
It’s true that the fairness doctrine made broadcast news better
My comment that you replied to was related just to broadcast news, and not newspapers. The Big Three.