It is the MSM’s business plan.
Remember how the Democrats wanted to pass a fairness doctrine bill? The reason was because Rush was armed forces radio for 1 hour a day and was doing better than NPR and every other liberal show, combined. The Dems couldn’t handle it, despite Dems owning 93 percent of the media.
Based on what we are seeing, a republican bill to implement a fairness doctrine based on the blatant partiality of the MSM, while a bill that attacks freedom of the press, would send a strong message to the Dems and the MSM that if they don’t toe the line, they will be sanctioned. They would scream, hem and haw about it, but it was them that originally tried to pass it.
Communists will eventually realize that the MSM (with all of its propaganda) is not helping the cause.
Journalism’s business plan is to excite the public with tales of malfeasance and ineptitude in society (the so-called “private sector”), and to claim objectivity for themselves.Negativity which is balanced can be simple skepticism, which is unexceptionable. Negativity which is not balanced, and which calls itself “objective” is nothing more than cynicism.
Skepticism about society is the only justification for government; cynicism about society is a rationale for tyranny.
So-called “liberalism” is the business plan of journalism.