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Why do Conservatives complain about the media?

The media is a perfect representation of Capitialism. The stories the media covers and how they choose to cover it, is based on what they think would maximize viewership which translates into more revenue. If they don't cover these stories and their competitors do they would lose viewership and lose money.

Isn't that how Fox generates viewership and ratings by pandering to their audience, covering certain stories that peak interest and doing so with a specific agenda to peak interest as well.

The alternative is to make the media a non-profit entity so that the amount of viewship is a non-factor but of course that goes against the principle of Capitalism. I thought you Conservatives are about privatizing everything and that competition yields the best results? So then why complain about the media all the time?

What say you?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Great point...they are really complaining about the market that makes the media profitable. If you hate a certain kind of shoe, but see it everybody wearing them, you cannot blame the shoe salesman, who is successfully filling the needs of his market.

    their complaints are really about the mass market that "buys" the product that the media provides them, because they do not buy the product (FOX) that they prefer.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Fox has the market sown up for journalism independent of the main stream liberal media.

    The rest of the media acts like a flock of parrots.

    Just look at the first weekend of stories on the Trayvon Martin case. There was a single story written that was copy and pasted by every liberal media outlet.

    They excluded any and all information that might tend to exonerate Zimmerman, like an eye witness, police reports, and 911 calls.

    A Flock of Parrots

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I rarely pay attention to the media. I watch Cavuto on Fox at 4 pm and sometimes the Five.

    They just make money off of uprising the masses.

  • xfiler
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    There's nothing Capitalistic about the media...These are owned by A few George Soro, Rupert Murdoch and cronies.

    those feeding us their daily dose of coverage are not loyal to jouralism in its true sense, but rather the guy who signs their paychecks. And the guys who sign their checks have Agendas.

    Source(s): It's all about controlling the masses. And Mr. Ed if you only had a brain that wasn't indocrinated...You to would be complaining.
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  • 9 years ago

    I say I am speaking out against a product I don't like, just like if I don't like a beer, I won't buy it.

    And competition allows for this, you really don't understand capitalism

  • 9 years ago

    I don't complain. I just want non biased so I watch Al Jazeera or News France.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    98% of journalists are Democrats.

    There's a start.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    well because the media spews liberal rhetoric 24/7 and we're tired of it

    that's why whenever you see a conservative attacking the MSM we cheer for them

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    You evidently haven't seen their ratings lately.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Its obviously above your head to understand why liberal media is propaganda

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