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I describe economic incentives and you call them a deus ex machine? Um, whatever.
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Yes. You totally skipped around the idea that journalists have a bent by arguing newspaper owners have an economic incentive to be centrist which they'd never defy. Voila, they must be centrist.
Except: No one buys a newspaper to make money anymore, so to even be in the business demonstrates one is not a rational economic actor. And then there's that little difference between the journalists and management. If there are any owners of papers who are not keeping them as vanity purchases, or because they inherited them and can't sell them, those owners have probably observed that it's just a tad difficult to get the journalists to write what ownership wants them to write. "Herding cats" barely starts to describe it.
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They want to be in the middle, and try to air both sides, which often means airing people like Corey Lewandowski as commentators.
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They want a fight. Fox just hired Donna Brazile and keeps Juan Williams on staff for this reason.
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No, my argument was that centrism was the model in the days of broadcast news when there were few outlets. Cable opened the doors to serving niche markets, like HGTV, Fox Soccer Channel, and Fox News.
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Well, my argument was aimed at the media of today. Why would I be criticizing the media of old for being biased?
