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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Birthing centers for polarizing rhetoric': The outsize influence of Fox, CNN and MSNBC
advertiser boycotts don't really work since they get most of their profits from cable subscriber fees, the geezer products on faux state news don't pay much for the ad time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/birthing-centers-for-polarizing-rhetoric-the-outsize-influence-of-fox-cnn-and-msnbc/2019/05/23/2bcc429a-7cbe-11e9-8ede-f4abf521ef17_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f9080ffbd21d
Instead, revenue is astronomical $5 billion in 2017, according to Pew Research, for the big three: Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.
And the cable networks, undeniably, develop the kind of engagement that marketers call mindshare especially in the political realm.
Cable TV news has an influence today that is outsized to the literal audience that is watching it, said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute."
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Cable Noise is nothing more than 24/7 Breathless, Breaking Infotainment designed to fill airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed. That is their main agenda from what I have noted prior to giving up on all of them and I firmly believe that we would all be better off without any of what passes on these channels as journalism.
It's high pitched, talking heads arguing over some latest gaffe, tweet, or poling with 6 people and a golf fish responding. Who's up, who's down, will "this" mean "X" or will it mean "Y" before they break for commercial or the host to hawk their latest book.
Presidential Politics is nothing more than a commodity to them of endless polling numbers and has nothing to do with the substance of the individual, the policies or vision that they are championing in their campaigns.
CNN, MSNBC & Fox .......
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still_one
(91,954 posts)newspapers
I don't need so-called "news networks", blurring the line between op eds and real news
hlthe2b
(101,720 posts)that it has allowed the likes of Sinclair to take over and "bastardize" a lot of local news channels. At the same time, paid advertisers consume much of the time allotted for the BIG 3 national newscasts. Make the networks take some of their immense profits to either cut ads from the 30-minute broadcasts so that the stories they do cover can receive the attention they should and even better, stretch them to 45 minutes and give another 15 minutes back to local coverage with their affiliates. Just like publicly-supported elections, news broadcasting should be part of network licensure for the public good.