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.
“Their primary interest is in maximizing the number of readers so that they can command higher advertising rates.”
“I don’t think I agree with you. The media SHOULD be interested in making money.”
I don’t agree either. In a sane world the media would be maximizing their readership and this should be a market-driven recipe for more even-handed reporting. For whatever reasons, they refuse to do this and have chosen to lie about their partisanship. It is obvious, killing them, and good riddence. The issue is their lack of credibility.