11-09-2015, 06:34 PM
This matters just as little now as it did 25 years ago.
The media's systematic biases are much more complex than a simple headcount of who votes Democrat and who votes Republican. I don't know a single person who enjoys getting cold calls, yet there are tons of those same people working in call centers. Tell me: when they're on the job, does it matter what their personal feelings are?
The media in this country is overwhelmingly corporate owned. Thus, their primary motives are making profit, protecting investments, maintaining access, etc. Now, how they go about doing that is a fairly in-depth but totally graspable issue; I recommend reading up on The Propaganda Model.
The media's systematic biases are much more complex than a simple headcount of who votes Democrat and who votes Republican. I don't know a single person who enjoys getting cold calls, yet there are tons of those same people working in call centers. Tell me: when they're on the job, does it matter what their personal feelings are?
The media in this country is overwhelmingly corporate owned. Thus, their primary motives are making profit, protecting investments, maintaining access, etc. Now, how they go about doing that is a fairly in-depth but totally graspable issue; I recommend reading up on The Propaganda Model.
