Wrong. Their primary interest is in maximizing the number of readers so that they can command higher advertising rates. They're not in the business, nor are they in the business of indoctrination; they're in the business of selling audiences. Unfortunately most media outlets take the easy route of building audiences by pandering to people's worst instincts.
I don’t think I agree with you. The media SHOULD be interested in making money. In the old days it was making money vs. being honest. But this post-Vietnam generation of media folks are so absolutely dipped in ideology that they put it before their own survival.
In part, it’s because they move in circles of same-thinking leftists. They don’t even KNOW anybody who voted for Bush. So they just assume that all their readers want to be brainwashed along the same lines that they have been brainwashed. They don’t know any better.
While I agree this is what they should do, it clearly is not what they are doing. They have chosen to slant the coverage to pander to the liberal left, instead of Americans as a whole. The big mistake in that is far more conservatives actually work for a living and buy products.
In watching the media circus in Israel it became painfully clear that they have an agenda and are willing to prostitute themselves to force their agenda on the US. There they think they are beyond inspection and lie freely in collusion with each other.
Only problem with that is once you become a liar, you begin to believe your own lies. The coverage got farther and farther off course to the point it no longer passes the smell test.
And you do not buy products from people you do not trust. They mistook their understandings of the world as a mandate to edjumacate the peons, er people and it cost them their jobs.
Good.