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Originally Posted by dddrees
Well there very well may be elements of both. But when news became more focused on the almighty dollar it became nothing more than any other TV Show and all TV shows rise and fall based on their ratings and their viewers.
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I think it's pretty easy to see that in the meetings at CBS to monetize the news under the entertainment division, plus the advent of CNN all news all the time in 1980 and then the progressions to Murdoch's Fox News with a "conservative" bias that all these companies basically just devised ways to be as controversial as possible.
They only had to look at wrestling and football as the cash cows that emotionally pitted one side against the other and the profit that ensued.
Unfortunately they treat news as sport and laugh all the way to the bank, not caring that it has real consequences for real people when their lives are treated as sport.