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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I think CNN started down that slope, then Fox upped the ante and they both slid down to rock bottom IMO.
I remember when Bush Sr. was pushing the War in the Gulf(tm) and CNN figured out how lucrative war was. They started increasing production values and making everything so dramatic. Every SCUD missile that flew overhead was the next Hiroshima. I swear some of the false alarms were complete fabrications. The commercials became longer and more produced as well until the War in the Gulf was more like a TV show.
Then the war ended and CNN became a big presidential cheerleader for Bush and Clinton and the news entertainment template was firmly in place. Then Fox News came along and started along the same path of news entertainment and both sides started to stake out their audiences. Whether this was the cause or a symptom of the post-9/11 polarization, I am not sure. Of course, it didn't help that the 2 guys who owned the networks were partisan clowns.
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If it seemed like a movie production to you it's because it actually was just that. They were caught misling people into believing they were on location, dodging 7.62x39 and under constant mortar threat. They weren't, they just had excellent production value, blue screens and viewership that was hungry for all the dirt.
Media has been conglomorated over the years to a small pool of bought and paid for state actors who have the playbook on divide and conquer tactics down to a science. What do you have now? People fighting over "truth" from available media, while the govt makes on talks of limiting press. Mission accomplished.
Also NewEra, I find it slightly amusing you thanked a tongue in cheek post I made that was essentially verbatim of a John Podesta email explaining Arianna Huffingtons concerns over letting the cat out of the bag and exposing them as the Dem cheerleaders that they are.