Comment by xnx
4 years ago
> The nationalization of news and politics in a country of 330 million people is toxic.
The "nightly news" used to be a much more common experience that people shared: "Twenty-seven million to 29 million viewers, on average, tuned in every night to hear Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News. Today, though, the viewership of evening news programs on CBS, NBC and ABC combined is smaller than CBS' when Cronkite sat in the anchor's chair."
Today the most popular news channel is Republican propaganda. I don't use that term to be dramatic. I do not think there is a more accurate description.
The top cable news channels are propaganda for the two major political parties.
This isn't a "both sides" issue. FoxNews has markedly higher ratings and is overtly partisan. Republicans get their TV news more from FoxNews than Democrats with one particular news network.
Except it is. MSNBC and CNN are obviously heavily tied in with the DNC. This is only not visible if you are heavily invested into the DNC narrative yourself. Just as FOX news viewers are not aware of the insane bias of that network. They just think it's the "truth", same as democrats believe the tripe spewed by MSNBC and CNN.