Jeffrey;
The media is, unfortunately, the same our elected, our gov, corporations (of all stripes), and political parties. The similarity is pretty simple. They are ALL obsessed with themselves/itself to the exclusion of just about anything else. Some of that is probably normal - what we are getting now is NOT normal, nor healthy (I think).
One example might be in order. When Trump starting really running his mouth, on TV, those in charge of TV found that they could get up to 4 times the income from a show with Trump as he entertained. As a result Trump got, we are told, up to 2 billion dollars of free exposure. In other words the greed and irresponsibility, of TV management, is actually responsible for Trump's success.
I wonder, does anybody else remembers the good old days when TV had to adhere to the concept of equal time programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rulehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
