My first question, thinking about this all day, is...how would the newsreaders/editors/programmers react?
Would the news be presented more equitably? Or, would they double down?
@DCPatriot the longer I'm in this business the more I realize that they've never presented the news fairly or equitably. And those that did are few and far between. My heat of the moment thought is that maybe a Murrow or Pyle on the battle front gave good honest reporting of what was happening.
But Cronkite in Vietnam....did not.
Before deregulation we didn't realize just how much the three TV networks and certain print publications controlled what we knew and what we didn't.
Look at how the NY Times not only covered up Stalin's genocide in Siberia...but the Holocaust as well.
The problem these days is you don't have people with J School backgrounds providing us the "news". They are more than likely to have PolySci or Law Degrees and have basically been told sit here read this and *poof* you're a journalist. And they hang out in an anchor chair as long as the money is good or until a Lib is in the WH and they can jump into a cushy Cabinet level job until those 8 years are up and they can walk back into the news room at ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox etc in D.C. and pick up where they left off.
It's almost like the news anchors and commentators in the Pseudo Media we have at the major level are every bit as much of a plant as the government employees at Justice and the EPA that carry on the Progressive agenda long after the Progressive President leaves office.
There has to be a major on-camera figure in the media that 'KNOWS' they're spewing lies and bullshit everyday.
I don't think they believe they are spewing lies.
Actually they tend to look at themselves as some kind of championing hero...shining the light on truth and justice.
And they all believe completely in what they are saying on the air.
And honestly since most of the major media figures are former politicians or have worked for politicians they believe the crap they are spewing wholeheartedly.
Yet most of them actually deny...sometimes vociferously that they are impartial and apolitical.
Which we both know is crap.
The whole incident with Bernard Shaw on the first night of the bombing in Iraq in 1991 comes to mind as well.