Agreed, but here's The Rest of The Story.
Suppose you saw a strapping young man, laid flat on his back, incapacitated -- by a cold. What would you think?
Option one: Maybe it's a really terrible cold.
Option two: Maybe there's something really, really wrong with his head.
A healthy American society would drive the MSM out of business tomorrow, because of its refusal to participate in their brainwashing crap.
Dan
We are creatures of habit and lazy.The media knows this.
They know that some people will subscribe to the newspaper and read it every morning over breakfast even if we don't agree with it. Where else do you get the sports scores, comics, and coupons? Especially if you are in a one-paper town?
When networks design a tv-schedule, they put a show they want to build an audience next to a show with a big audience. They know that some members of the audience will be too lazy to change the channel.
Same goes for radio. Even with the Jack format. They know that they audience won't like "everything" they offer (take it as a given) but that you will be "comfortable" staying put.
There is nothing to be gained from watching the 2+ hour morning news programs, the 30 minute national evening news broadcast or any of the local morning, noon, evening, or nightly local broadcasts of car crashes, car chases, apartment fires, and bar shootings.
It's a 50+ year habit for some people.
A healthy American society would drive the MSM out of business tomorrow, because of its refusal to participate in their brainwashing crap.
Take a look at their ratings / subscription rates?
Earlier this year some advatisers took the Mpls (red) Star Tribune to court because they were/are fudgeing their numbers.