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Wounded Bear

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5. They make money on the conflicts and the drama...

Reply to ProfessorPlum (Original post)

Thu Apr 27, 2017, 10:52 AM

Apr 2017

actual journalism tends to tamp down the drama and get to the cold, dry facts.

(In our best Valley girl face)

[font size=6]Bo-o-o-o-o-ring.[/font]

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god, our press is useless [View all] ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 OP

One of the reasons I think is, the suits, their bosses, insist on their writing nothing monmouth4 Apr 2017 #1

yeah. ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #3

Some of it is actually entertaining to watch in a bad way! hamsterjill Apr 2017 #2

Until the profit motive is stripped away Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #4

They make money on the conflicts and the drama... Wounded Bear Apr 2017 #5

they could dramatically conflict with dumb evil people ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #6

And tRump thrives by amping up the drama. JudyM Apr 2017 #9

It's why he was "successful" on "reality" TV... Wounded Bear Apr 2017 #12

Right now on msnbc talk of the gulf between Ryan and the dems about getting more info on Flynn flamingdem Apr 2017 #7

yes, aiding and abetting. ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #8

We need a day of resistance marching against complacent & complicit media. JudyM Apr 2017 #10

now _that_ is an idea I would march for ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #11