Why is it that the corporate-owned half-hour news shows all cover the same eight stories night after night, with all the things that are going on with six billion people around the world?
Just try watching more than one national news broadcast at any given time (or recording news broadcasts) on major broadcast or cable networks, and it is often obvious that sometimes they are even covering stories in the same order at the same time, with very close to the same slant. There is something seriously wrong with that.
It probably has something to do with news pools, embedded reporters, "pack journalism" and editors that don't want to run things that other organizations are not confirming. But when a virtual corporate news cartel fulfills a propaganda function that is not all that dissimilar to what the Communist Party did in Eastern Europe, maybe that is a problem.
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