Star Ranger4 Wrote:Maybe that was true in the past Catty.Don't paint every news organization with the same brush as Fox News. CNN literally does not give a shit what message they are sending out, so long as people are buying it. MSN is more left wing, but even they focus on sensationalism and ratings over any ideological agenda.
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.
As Stewart points out several times in recent interviews with Fox, the 24h-news industry is built to cover stuff like 9/11 or Katrina or other major events that draw in lots and lots of viewers with uo-to-the-minute updates (and even then, most of their "updates" consist of "we don't know what's happening" and rampant speculation). Absent that, they create such stories to sell to people. Weinergate, for example. They do this because they have to sensationalize to sell news.
This isn't really anything new. Yellow journalism has been around since journalism has been around.
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