National Review: No Newsroom Is Safe If The Intercept Can Fall Victim to Media Groupthink
We have long identified the old media (and now much of the new media also) as deeply crony. The National Review says it is not nefarious corporate influence. We disagree. The biggest corruptor is drug company advertising dollars, but that is only the beginning
(From The National Review)
Most of the people who inhabit our elite newsrooms have the same partisan interests and cater to them in ways explicit and subconscious — and that fact, not nefarious corporate power, is the true source of our media monoculture. These reporters and editors don’t require some bottom-line obsessed boss to come downstairs and put the squeeze on when they risk jeopardizing corporate interests; they do it themselves, but to preserve their social status, not to protect the bottom line.
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