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Odin2005

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1. The Corporate Media feeds on controversy and outrage.

Reply to madamesilverspurs (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 08:23 PM

Jan 2016

They get their revenue from advertisements. Shows that get more viewers get more money from those advertisements, and so the MSM is incentivized to cover Trumps outrageous BS because it gets eyeballs.

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