Reply #40: Here is why, I just learned this...

[scentopine]

People surf the web at work. They look at CNN and Yahoo and MSM sites and if you work for SEC you are allowed to surf for porn. As long as MSM sites paint a safe, pro-business picture, companies are quietly tolerant of the web surfing. The fire walling and monitoring is worse than surfing in terms of control headaches.

So the deal is, promote a pro-corporate culture on MSM and its like people watching TV at work. So, when you go to "safe" sites like abc, cnn, et al, you are will only ever get nice easily digestible morsels of news, scooby snacks and never anything that will challenge corporate culture. In return, these fake news sites get massive exposure to their advertising, all day and all night.

Teabaggers are inherently pro-corporate, pro-wall street. This is something corporate management can get behind even when they are completely crazy.