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Originally posted by dgs212: The mainstream corporate media have a particular political agenda only so far as they can profit from said agenda. That's their job; they are a corporation like any other where a bottom line matters. Does anyone honestly believe that a major news agency (Reuters, AOL/T-W, Gannet, News Corp, etc) would jeopardize their profitability to further the personal political agenda of any one editor or talking head? That would be ludicrous and dysfunctional. Any corporation with that kind of business model would fold. That being said, to assert that "the media" is left-wing is a tautology, as it's whatever it needs to be at the moment to remain a viable corporate entity. In the midst of a virtual right-wing stranglehold on politics, its only natural for the media to appear oppositionary. The reverse, of course, would be true during a liberal administration (how many times a day did we hear about Monica Lewinsky?). They must purport a degree of opposition, or else it becomes readily apparent that they have no goal whatsoever besides profit (as if it weren't apparent already). |
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Excellent post. I've tried to express that before but you've done it much more succinctly.