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by denton-scratch 1622 days ago
> Journalists work for private corporations

Indeed - that's the drift of Manufacturing Consensus.

To add to that: TV journalism is a form of entertainment, especially sofa-chat news-lite and vox-pop. Vox-pop, especially, is always manipulative. Interviewees always seem to be idiots, because audiences don't want to feel more stupid than the "man on the street". The information content of a vox-pop segment is zero.