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Showing Original Post only (View all)You want to know why the main stream media has shifted so far to the right.... [View all]
Just look at the demographics.
The people who still watch the network news are 50 plus while the cable news channel skew the same.
Just look at what they advertise and you will get a real good idea of who watches this crap.
Is it any wonder that the market dictates the message? Give the watchers what they want.
So many people 40 and younger have never watched a evening news broadcast that the powers that be know this could very well be the last stand of the white male elite.
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WCGreen
Jun 2012
OP
At 50+ my teevee watching became a grail search re: watchability, I thought I'd found
HereSince1628
Jun 2012
#6
MSM entitites like NBC are one of the weaker divisions money-wise of huge corps like GE
KurtNYC
Jun 2012
#9
Absolutely Spot On!!!!....I applaud your understanding of the Media Machine!!!
lostnote12
Jun 2012
#25
I still usually watch the local news for area updates on weather and stuff like that..
Harriety
Jun 2012
#11
Part of that was corporate cost-cutting, where they laid off all the fact-checkers.
tclambert
Jun 2012
#20
I watched a Bill Moyers interview a few weeks ago that focused on this. You can watch
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2012
#16
Give the watchers what titillates them, & tie that to what YOU want them to want
BlancheSplanchnik
Jun 2012
#18
When I was a kid, my family routinely watched the local news followed by the national news.
Arugula Latte
Jun 2012
#29