Posted on 07/22/2014 5:37:25 AM PDT by mgist
Murdouch is trying to buy Time Warner, will result in further consolidation
Only true if you completely discount the truly independent media, like conservative blog/news sites. (E.g. Powerline)
FoxNews has lost several to the other news channels, and FoxNews has acquired reporters from them, too.
The reporters do seem to ‘adapt’ to their new surroundings and ‘adopt’ the philosophy of their new channel.
I am wondering, when did the Musical known as “Newsies” come out? In the Disney film version, Robert Duvall, playing Mr. Pulitzer, speaks to discourage the main protagonist, Jack, by saying about how what he writes can essentially control opinion for or against him.
The Blaze, Powerline, Commentarama, and FreeRepublic, make miniscule amounts of income in comparison to the mainstream networks, which is what this article was trying to point out. The major networks make an overwhelming majority of all business income regarding the news.
Bump for later.
I don’t know, but yellow journalism has been around since at least the Civil War.
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