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Re: WGAE: Internet As Primary News Source Threatens Quality, Job The country isn't willing to pay for quality programming.
Just take a look (I'm being serious here) at Fox news, for example. They have it down to an art form. Snippets of news as entertainment, stories designed to create outrage or inflame political partisanship, which gets them an avid auidence and dedicated following and most importantly--- high ratings. It's a formula which is working well for them.
Now let's imagine you're trying to compete with Fox news, but you're more of the traditional mindset, of investigative reporting, carefully sourcing and producing a detailed and clear story. Guess what. Your ratings suck. Your budget is cut. You're not sensationalist enough, and the people don't want to hear the truth if it goes against their preconceived belief system. The people don't want quality news programming.
So, you fall, and they rise. And in the end the public is well managed by careful spin and outright falsehoods.
This is the way things have become.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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