It's really pretty simple why the press can only, at its bet," lean forward."

[WCGreen]

The money these national media figures are paid is higher by far than the people they are reaching, the cast of people they have as experts more than likely have incredibly high salaries and the people they interview are usually people drawn from a small pool of "experts" or "opinion makers" that is easily assessable to the news people.

They don't report any news that has to be explained, they just get people talking around a narrative the suits the gigantic corporation that allows them to present the views of that corporation to the masses.

These media arms of a gigantic conglomerate of varied companies make a good chunk of their income stream with special interest advertising that is skewed to message that only a few opinion makers can afford.

Tell me where is there any real consistent voice talking about the issues that are of a concern for the middle and lower class?

They condescend to the rest of us by pushing stories like NAtalie Hollywood or what ever her name was.

[Scuba]

1. I thought Dorothy Sayers said it very well...

“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957

British writer, essayist, playwright and translator.

[WCGreen]

2. yep, that about sums it up...

[valerief]

4. The manufacture of consent. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. They don't care about our concerns.

We are the product to be sold...

[nineteen50]

5. And they keep on throwing us the same old

has been analysts that have been wrong more than any job I
know would allow.

[Odin2005]

6. See who is advertising in the commercials to see who is controlling the narrative.

Companies would not advertise on news stations that threaten their profits.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. I recall reading that the late Tim Russert lived cheek-by-jowl

in the same tony suburban Maryland neighborhood as Dick Cheney. Harder to maintain objectivity when you have neighbors like that and identify closer with the 1% than the 99%.