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MousePlayingDaffodil

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19. Thank you . . .

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 01:27 PM

Jun 2017

That's perfectly put, to my mind. That viewers are the "product" and that the advertisers are the true "customers" of all for-profit television and radio captures it very well.

As to this, Rupert Murdoch originally created Fox News to exploit what he (correctly) perceived to be a "neglected" niche in "news" broadcasting. There was nothing fundamentally "conservative" in his thinking here.

Murdoch would have happily televised late-term abortions if he thought he could make money off of it.

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That lack of understanding is a pet peeve of mine. Yonnie3 Jun 2017 #10

Thank you . . . MousePlayingDaffodil Jun 2017 #19

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Exactly angrychair Jun 2017 #11

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Yet again on MSNBC angrychair Jun 2017 #18