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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
So are the media acting against their own interests? Or do they recognize that the audience for serious, thorough, balanced news is vanishingly small, and not viable in any commercial sense?
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Well that's just it, isn't it? People who are decrying the media aren't wrong... but how can you blame the media really?
At this point they're just giving people what they want. It's not about facts or "real" issues, it's appealing to the mob. It's pure pathos. Bread and games. Literally just giving people what they want to hear. It's not a right/left issue (though who did it first is questionable, the current form was definitely first popularised by Fox News). It's not even a new concept. This sort of thing has been going on forever, there is tons of evidence of it from the Cold War.
It's the same thing that carried Trump to the White House. Near-mindless pandering to emotion, to the point where policy didn't really matter.
There's still real news out there. Just like there are leaders with actual experience and thought-out policy. Problem is, you'll find neither with their own show on a major network.