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(4,835 posts)But when I do; I pay close attention to the advertisers. A lot of prescription drugs. A lot of car insurance. Quite a few banks. Fucking Chuck.
I expect advertisers have more control over the news than the networks. I wouldn't imagine just the ads that run during the news have influence over the news either.
Sometimes I'm surprised when I see an ad for something that doesn't even need to be advertising. GE for example, blue cross, blue shield, the local utility. I wonder what news story they are preventing.
The whole main stream liberal media BS was never true anyway, but it should be pretty obvious that you aren't going to see a negative news story on a network sponsor, and all of the businesses that are causing the problems, are the advertisers.