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Kaleva

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8. I didn't know that.

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 14, 2021, 02:19 PM

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Does our "news" media have the public's best interest at heart or are they just in it for the money? [View all] tenderfoot Oct 2021 OP

Other...in on anti-democracy for money, yes... and political power. Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2021 #1

They are a for profit business so #1 priority is to maximize profits. It's always been that way. Kaleva Oct 2021 #2

CNN was one the best networks up to the mid-90s - so I'm going to have to disagree with that tenderfoot Oct 2021 #3

CNN's main priority back in the 90's was to make a profit. Same as today. Kaleva Oct 2021 #6

That may well be but they did news well tenderfoot Oct 2021 #7

I was thinking that you had included newspapers in your question. Kaleva Oct 2021 #9

That's actually where I get my news these days. tenderfoot Oct 2021 #10

Prior to cable news networks, the news departments at CBS, ABC and NBC were "non-profit" arms LeftInTX Oct 2021 #4

I didn't know that. Kaleva Oct 2021 #8

You pose two questions and provide an opportunity for one response Patton French Oct 2021 #5

After they became P&L centers, it's now all about the money, airing what sells. n/t RKP5637 Oct 2021 #11

Other: Is this a rhetorical question? 11 Bravo Oct 2021 #12

Other: as in I think this or that. tenderfoot Oct 2021 #14

Not trying to give you a hard time, I just thought the answer was obvious. 11 Bravo Oct 2021 #15

It certainly is these days. I wonder if they're as much for annihilating democracy as the right. tenderfoot Oct 2021 #16

I don't think money-making through advertising stillcool Oct 2021 #13

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