Star Ranger4 Wrote:Maybe that was true in the past Catty.
Sadly nowadays the major news portals see themselves as the people who should be shaping the American citizen's awareness through deciding what said citizen should or should not hear about.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Most large media are publicly traded corporations, if the stockholders seriously believed that the management of those corporations wasn't trying to maximize profits it would find itself under new management, and the previous management would possibly find itself under prosecution.
Investors who spend money to buy stocks tend not to do it for charity.
If they do indeed try to shape opinion it is because they think it will make them more money, and I do not see how opinion shaping comes into making more money.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."