That falls into the category sometimes known as "investigative reporting" and it's a long form program.
I am talking about nightly news reporting and the 24 hour cable news cycle in particular.
News organizations around the world have been producing long-form investigative programming for decades, but that's a whole different animal than the 24 hour news cycle.
And when you take a landmark event like the assassination of President Kennedy and try to make it a boilerplate that is used to compare ALL news, you've basically made an attempt
to describe all motor vehicles as having four wheels. Sorry, many have eighteen.
What I was getting at is the fact that each news network now HAS a declared political slant.
Fox News IS the Right Wing mouthpiece and always was. One could declare that MSNBC is left oriented, at least left leaning, and certainly not middle of the road.
Cable news IS the dominant member here, the 800 pound gorilla.
And there is a reason why a Fox News or similar RW outlet insists that Russia's view is the correct one: Trumpers love Putin and if Putin says that the Bucha dead were all crisis actors and
that the atrocities were staged by Ukraine,
"then goddammit that's what Fox better say" or else massive numbers of viewers will turn off Fox...and that impacts the bottom line.
Fox News Channel
cannot exist solely on cable news carriage fees...they can try but it won't be sustainable, otherwise there'd be no need for Mike Lindell's pillow ads.
I don't say or imply that news networks weren't engaged in manufacturing consent to some degree prior to
Murdoch's fast tracked citizenship in America,
I'm saying that market pressures to produce a staggering profit did not exist quite as much because prior to the 1990's most American news department budgets were underwritten by prime time programming...that's a fact. The exodus from loss leader news departments BEGAN in the 1980's and by 1996 the process of transformation was virtually complete.
