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Originally Posted by Tervuren

This thread sparked a conversation with my dad, he's been on the tech side of TV starting with when he was a teenager.
I asked him when TV news became about pushing a narrative instead of journalism.

He said he's never known it not to be.
His knowledge goes back to 1960.
It is a fundamentally bad format given the disconnect that is possible between what you're told, what you're seeing, what you're hearing, and what actually happened.
However, a lot of brains can't recognize it, and because they are being presented both visual and audible ques give it a very high credibility.

Perhaps, but I would argue that the 24 hour news channels have made it exponentially worse. In the old days when people watched the evening news, or even the early days of cable news channels like headline news, it was about 30 minutes of content. There simply isn’t enough time to present more than basic information on each story. There’s also not time to sensationalize every terrible event that happened in BFE to perpetuate that the sky is falling. But now with 24 hours to fill, it’s 99% opinion and spin.