The collapse of western journalism. I should say that overtly commercialized media is just a prop.
this post was submitted on 29 Feb 2024
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Nobody who's looking for good coverage of anything should be reading / watching CNN anyway. The last 10-odd years have proven that all the major privately owned US networks are just total slop.
Seriously - pretty much every single TV news network in the US is just a constant flow of editorialized garbage and shoddy journalism. It's more than a little depressing to consider that millions of people base their their view of politics on it.
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Yes. Many, many people. Latest "average stats" for 7 day primetime viewing in 2023 were a bit over 500,000 CNN viewers and 1.8mil Fox News viewers.
Of course, we have to guesstimate as these are likely Nielsen ratings, as well as including things like how many TV's per airport.
If we take the ~5,000 public airports and divide that by CNN's 550,000k viewers (over 7 days) that would be 110 TV's per airport needed to be playing CNN. Given that I don't think most airports have this many TV's, specific playing CNN, I think it's fair to assume that there are actual people watching the news.
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My mistake I have no idea how I misread that lol. Maybe I got excited for math
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Journalism is pay 2 win now, and all the biggedt news outlets are being funded by lots of rich people / companies