Broadcast journalism was created out of neccessity for World War II and it became a means to promote opposition to Hitler, sympathy for England and American involvement in the war.
After the war it transplated itself back home and found its niche promoting liberal causes in the United States.
As you probably know, but for anyone interested, George Orwell was bitterly disappointed that his lung condition, caused rejection for the armed conflict. He lent his talents to the BBC. He conceded that it was necessary to deal in lies to defeat fascism. The BBC told us a number of lies. Whether it was fed them and they did not know, maybe gives them a pass in some cases.
One big lie was the U-Boat surfacing, to machine gun survivors of a British merchant ship. It was a British Sunderland flying boat that machine gunned the U-Boat. Likely British survivors unintentionally. The Liverpool mob tried to lynch another U-Boat commander who had been captured. The police rescued him.
True, from there on in the U-Boats mercilessly sank merchant ships. Then crash dived.
Orwell partly based 1984, on a giant propaganda machine that was the BBC. I chuckle at many of my generation who were children in WW2. They still repeat what they had to believe then. Of course, lies notwithstanding, the enemy did enough evil deeds to last for all time.
The almost amusing thing, is that books are written constantly boasting of how lies were told. If one follows as to how deception was the perogative of British counter-intelligence, one has to have two minds. One for the old BBC propaganda on the evil cunning of the enemy and one for the "true" stories of how stupid the Germans were.
'"Bodyguard Of Lies" etc. Not to forget the Nazi plot to take over Mexico and then drive up to the USA>
I think Fox News does a pretty good job representing the Right. There’s Tucker Carlson(sometimes), Glenn Beck.
Conservatives definitely control most talk radio, I mean radio America is a joke and a HUGE proportion of Americans sit in their cars each day in traffic going to and from work.
Broadcast journalism, the ABC/CBS/NBC’s I think and am assuming here that a lot of retired people must watch them or people put it on in the background, and they do have a liberal tilt as not many conservatives go into journalism, and probably never will, it’s not that profitable, and there’s a lot of “warm fuzzy” crap they would have to deal with. No thanks.