One Degree wrote:Profit is part of it, but if this is their only purpose then they are idiots. Fox is by far the most profitable. The other news outlets should be copying them to improve profitability. They are not. It is obvious profit is not the most important motive.
Their ratings went down after an election? Shocking!
And yet the ratings of CNN and MSNBC were among the highest they've ever had.Here is the amount of airtime CNN gave each GOP candidate:
Here's the bought v. free airtime break down:
Quite frankly, the fake tears shed by the president are to rile people like you up. He gets up on his pulpit, prostates himself like a victim, and asks all of you to feel bad for what a victim he is so you'll support him harder. Here he is explaining his strategy:
Washington Examiner wrote:...even a critical story, which may be hurtful personally, can be very valuable to your business.
One thing I've learned about the press is that they're always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It's in the nature of the job, and I understand that...
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you. I've always done things a little differently, I don't mind controversy, and my deals tend to be somewhat ambitious...The result is that the press has always wanted to write about me.
Before everybody gets their feelings hurt and lashes out, I'm pointing out that this is a corrupt part of capitalism. This is how it works, this is how the press has always worked, this is how politicians use it. There is nothing new here. This does not mean it's in any way democratic, in fact the opposite:
Lenin wrote:If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty”--supposedly petty--details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc.,--we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been inclose contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.
But CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and Trump all made record amounts of money from you. They're still doing so, and you're happily licking their palms because they ask you to. If you really want some kind of democracy, look at the numbers and who is profiting.
If you're happy with your masters making your feelings feel sad, then I guess continue to do as you're directed and feel as your told.
Alis Volat Propriis; Tiocfaidh ár lá; Proletarier Aller Länder, Vereinigt Euch!
You ignored my post and posted a bunch of stuff. What your post does it take all the bad media coverage Trump got and try to make it look like the media was doing him a favor. 
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