| John2290 said: I'd swear the American media get a script every morning that is passed out across the country and have express instructions to emphasize certain buzzwords. I've been following smaller media now as well as mainstream media since this was declared a pandemic and this script, I'm certain of which exists, only gets minor changes in wording from studio to studio. Okay, maybe it's not a script but more of a bullpoint sheet of what stories to follow. And the writers at the studios let the same langauge bleed into the scripts they write up. |
We actually have independent reporters who go forth and create "news". - Then the big news outlets like the Murdoch media empire, grabs them, pays them a small amount of cash, and redistributes that "news" under a new attention-grabbing headline.
It means that there is a consistent narrative regardless if it's left or right-wing media sources (When it's not cherry-picked news that is!) as it's from an independent source.
It also allows for smaller, individual news outlets to get news sources without much effort to fill in gaps in their news coverage. (A news agency can't be everywhere at the same time!)
I would assume the same kind of set-up exists in the USA.
So in short that does mean that there is a consistent narrative about COVID, Trump or whatever-else issue and that means "false information" is easier to propagate regardless of political affiliation.
Essentially they report on what sells, it's a business.
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