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9600n81 t1_jcu4wr2 wrote

Rich people buy the newspaper company. The owner of the company gets to dictate editorial policy.

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zagglefrapgooglegarb t1_jcu6bmh wrote

This, in a nutshell, is it.

'But why do journalists promote those opinions or points of view if they're just being told to?'

Because they wouldn't be there if they didn't already lean that way themselves. Journalists don't become corrupted or biased, they're only there because they already are.

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