Journalism never has been more than advertising mixed with opinion mongering. Television journalism, like print journalism, is more interesting in entertaining than informing, but above all, it aims to manipulate.
Agreed. But a media system that is so overly imbalanced does a disservice to the nation...voters don’t get the information they need to make an informed choice.
In other words, let the opinion mongering continue, but it should be balanced so the electorate gets full value from the media and has the ability to make effective decisions by seeing both sides to an argument instead of one.
MSM Journalistic creed:
We are salespeople.
We use sensationalism and controversy to get the public to watch what we are selling.
In the event there is no sensationalism or controversy, make some up.