All corporate media — even if it is claimed to be left-leaning — is hungry for the nonsense generated by the right because they make everything into a juicy scandal with the appearance of newsworthiness.
https://twitter.com/HRCDemocrat/status/1364706011928535042
I've been talking about this for years, but I think most people still don't see how deeply the profit motive drives all news coverage.
MSM covered every Trump press briefing like a pack of hungry wolves, because Trump was guaranteed to throw them meat.
MSM covered every Trump press briefing like a pack of hungry wolves, because Trump was guaranteed to throw them meat.
The meat could have been lies, or insane policy, or name-calling or whatever. But it generated eyeballs.
Psaki's press conferences are about "boring" things like solving problems and avoiding divisiveness, and so MSM has already abandoned full coverage of them.
Psaki's press conferences are about "boring" things like solving problems and avoiding divisiveness, and so MSM has already abandoned full coverage of them.
But now MSM is desperate for stories that make money. Divisive stories that get people arguing and mad at each other are the most profitable.
If those stories don't come up naturally, MSM has to create them.
If those stories don't come up naturally, MSM has to create them.
But lucky for MSM, the modern right-wing thrives on creating division where there was none before. So the right creates stories based on lies, but the stories are "juicy" so they get reported by every major outlet.
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