You have a good line of reasoning but it doesn’t go quite far enough to explain the lock step with which the journalist of this country march.
Rush has done a good job demonstrating the coordination with which the major news media operate. He will play a series of clips of the different talking heads using nearly identical phases on a given topic (usually the president) over and over again these different news casters use the same phrase.
If it were simply cynicism they would have varying opinions and use different language.
Such identical choice of words does not happen by accident. There is a coordinating force at work here; a group think, a hive mind.
We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Rush has done a good job demonstrating the coordination with which the major news media operate. He will play a series of clips of the different talking heads using nearly identical phases on a given topic (usually the president) over and over again these different news casters use the same phrase.
If it were simply cynicism they would have varying opinions and use different language.
You are absolutely correct. I explained why a journalist would tend to socialistic thought, but not why all journalists would. That is, if all journalists were the same my argument explains why that “same” would be socialist-minded.And, de facto, there actually is only one journalism. Wire service journalism. There are a number of wire services, and they probably actually do compete in a real sense. But the effect of wire services - each and every one of them - must be (and is) to homogenize journalism. The big one on the block is the AP, which is a cooperative of sorts. You don’t buy the services of the AP, you join the AP - and you pay membership dues and you contribute articles to the AP “wire” which other member journalism outlets pick up.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)The AP “wire” is a continuous virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets in the country. In Oscar Hammerstein’s formulation, you have to be “naive as a babe to believe” that the members of the AP have been meeting together - not about merriment and diversion, but directly about business - for a century and a half (since before the Civil War) without ever finding common ground against the public interest. I have explained that they do have common ground, and that it lies in propaganda against society and in favor of big government. And “bias in the media” is exactly that.And there is your “Borg.” IMHO