This all makes a lot of sense, if you ignore the fact that 40 years ago there were over 50 media companies, and now six massive corporations own 90% of all media outlets. It's not hard at that point to get everybody literally reading the same script on air, which they do, as demonstrated in a regular montage segment on "Last Week Tonight…
This all makes a lot of sense, if you ignore the fact that 40 years ago there were over 50 media companies, and now six massive corporations own 90% of all media outlets. It's not hard at that point to get everybody literally reading the same script on air, which they do, as demonstrated in a regular montage segment on "Last Week Tonight," in which local talking news heads are cut together using the exact same language and phrasing to describe a story from one outlet to the next, to the next, to the next, to the next. Yes, media CEOs actually are writing our headlines, and no, not a single one of them is a liberal. It's not so much that reporters are "marching in lockstep" -- that suggests a consciousness of behavior. It's more that they instinctively swarm together like a school of fish, feeding on whatever is sprinkled into their tank from above, bound together by the promise of another fat paycheck. Never underestimate the depths of what people will go along with for job security.
This all makes a lot of sense, if you ignore the fact that 40 years ago there were over 50 media companies, and now six massive corporations own 90% of all media outlets. It's not hard at that point to get everybody literally reading the same script on air, which they do, as demonstrated in a regular montage segment on "Last Week Tonight," in which local talking news heads are cut together using the exact same language and phrasing to describe a story from one outlet to the next, to the next, to the next, to the next. Yes, media CEOs actually are writing our headlines, and no, not a single one of them is a liberal. It's not so much that reporters are "marching in lockstep" -- that suggests a consciousness of behavior. It's more that they instinctively swarm together like a school of fish, feeding on whatever is sprinkled into their tank from above, bound together by the promise of another fat paycheck. Never underestimate the depths of what people will go along with for job security.