Our perceptions differ. The original poster has chosen not to respond. Now you’re indicting the whole industry yourself for aggravated rapaciousness, based on the one famous Les Moonves quote. There’s a select group here who do the same, seemingly under the impression that every individual in the news industry has a self-imposed duty to save a frivolous and foolish society from itself. Those execs are not monks, OK? They don’t take vows like that. Those large networks are for-profit businesses with a fiduciary responsibility to their owners and shareholders and a need to pay the bills. If people want to see Donald Fucking Trump on their TV, then Donald Fucking Trump is what the people will get. There are many people in the news industry more broadly who are skillful and persistent at exposing public corruption. They’re not concentrated so strongly in network and cable news. The industry is in no way monolithic. I would think sophisticated people would understand all that but I find I have to point it out over and over again.
