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RE: Corrupt Bastards? - 11/1/2010 7:01:55 PM

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ORIGINAL: EternalHoH

Medicine goes from non-profit to profit, it turns to crap.

I think you have this quite backwards, Eterna, but that's a whole different subject. Care to start a thread, or was this just a drive-by?

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RE: Corrupt Bastards? - 11/1/2010 7:36:52 PM

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I dont have ANYTHING backwards.

TV news was a required 30 minute public service announcement, a total financial black hole for TV broadcasters who were REQUIRED to do this as a condition of their license to use the public owned airwaves to make a profit with their other programming. Unlike a newspaper that uses its own privately-owned delivery mechanism, the TV broadcasters were using a public-owned medium to profit. As a consequence, their license to use the airwaves required them to do a 30 minute news broadcast as a 100% non-profit, public service announcement. This is how traditional news bureaus and the 30 minute news broadcast that was the staple of news reporting in the pre-24hr cable news era came into being.

Only with the advent of cable, where the broadcasters began laying their own privately-funded wire conduit into peoples homes, bypassing the public-owned airwaves, were the rules changed to allow the established TV broadcasters to change their news departments to a for-profit business model, to be able to compete with the for-profit cable news.

And with the coming of the for-profit model, those traditional news bureaus became too expensive, with opinion news replacing those bureaus. Why pay people to gather news the old fashioned way using the "shoe leather on asphalt" approach when you can pay people less to sit on their ass and give one-sided opinions.

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RE: Corrupt Bastards? - 11/2/2010 5:11:46 AM

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Few realize that the charade of an impartial press is a recent phenomenon.

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