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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
No, you are assuming the whole process is clean and legit. Audiences and ratings have zero to do with it. That's not how propaganda works.
Why is MSNBC doing this? For the same reason liberal talk radio stations turn into Rush Limbaugh-carrying right-wingers overnight. The Powers That Be have decided that having the token liberal MSNBC no longer gives them the propagandic leverage they seek going into the 2016 elections. They know Hillary carries with her a big audience so they do not want what would amount to her own cable channel going into 2016. Remember, the Goal here is ALWAYS to get as close to 50-50 as the public will buy and accept as a legitimate electoral win. With MSNBC around Clinton would have a 70/30 propagandic split and the Right Wing, even with Fox, has nothing to counteract it.
See, if Hillary has a 70/30 electoral win then how could the propaganda machine convince Americans and the rest of the World that the Republican, whoever that may be, won? Think clearly, play chess people.
BTW: This has nothing to do with Left or Right, it's all about balance. Corporations hate any kind of disruption in revenue flow. Remember that.
The way Germany looked to the outside world in 1938. Point well taken.
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I think you are over reaching on the political propaganda side of things. Simple fact is once 24/7 News networks became the norm they were always chasing ratings. Ratings mean more viewers and more money from advertisers.
This is one of the reasons if I do watch news it's usually CBS, because they don't run a 24/7 news station and don't have to chase ratings like Fox, CNN, MSNBC ect does.
This is why Fox for example pushes their hard core right wing BS. I don't think it's so much that they try to brainwash the masses (that's just a side affect) it's they are giving their viewers what they want to hear.
If you spoon feed people what they want to hear they are going to watch more and get higher ratings. If someone thinks Obama sucks, they aren't going to tune into MSNBC to hear a overtly liberal tone. They are going to tune into Fox news because Fox reassures them with their anti liberal stance.
Meanwhile some far left liberal isn't going to tune into Fox news to hear how many times one of the talking heads can say Obama sucks. They instead are going to tune into MSNBC. The problem is there just are not as many hard core left wing bats as there are right wing bats. Meaning it's not profitable to cater to the far left as there is not a big market to cater too, hence low ratings for MSNBC.