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Originally Posted by DifferentName
These giant corporate media interests don't have ideologies, insofar as ideological concerns or arguments are not at all the point of their existence.
It's all about capitalism, baby.
CNN and FOX and the NYT are only incidentally "left" or "right" or "center-left" or whatever. The owners of these firms simply dump all their data into Excel and it spits out that they can claim x percentage of the market share by appealing to y demographic. Then they all divvy up those slices of the pie and fight over the remaining incoherent cranks and randos.
Sure, the average person within CNN is probably to the left of the average person within FOX, including the people who are responsible with providing news content to the public. But in terms of media entities using journalistic integrity or framing stories in a way that help any given ideology or party, that doesn't matter.
These media giants only live to produce value for their owners and shareholders. They can't fulfill any other aim. Corporations might be people, but they don't have free will like people presumably do. To hope for them to ever come to the aid of their consumers' political causes is ludicrous. Welcome to the machine.
disagree with some of this. certainly capitalism is an ideology.
also these corporations (I call them cartels) while they certainly care about profit over all else, they dont go after it by appealing to people. they use their position as authorities on news, facts, opinions etc to shape how people think.
they are monopolies so they will make money regardless. like, CNN or Fox aint going out of business.
also, while I agree they will never come to the aid of their consumers political causes, they absolutely aid their benefactors political causes. look at the behavior of the NYT in creating the Iraq War. how often do we hear about reporters and editors giving intelligence agents stories for approval ahead of time?