Do You Think the Commercial Media Is Corrupt? Unfair? Biased?

[Caliman73]

40. I am surprised this has not been flagged.

I agree with everything you said. I am just surprised someone hasn't reported it as "bashing the Democratic Party" or something.

The media is biased toward what will bring in the most viewers. Conflict and stories of "chaos" bring in the most viewers. Of course the owners of much of the media are very wealthy and would likely have bias toward policies that would allow them to keep their wealth and add to it.

Unfortunately, as you said, there was disarray in Iowa and the Democratic candidates are still fighting each other to be the one who fights Trump in the General.

I understand the impulse to want to make the media report only "important information" but that is the problem. When a story gets a lot of eyes, clicks, sells papers, etc... then that is important. We have an idiot entertainer as president and he is a 24/7 train wreck that brings in ratings. Important is relative to who the audience is.

I would prefer more technical, boring news that was informative about policy and issues we face, but I know that type of news programming would not be on the air very long because people would not watch boring stuff.