(06-27-2009, 09:46 PM)Flyby link Wrote: You honestly believe that media doesn't ever gain from creating tabloid-esque news? The number of hits, sells, and etc., doesn't effect a website/newspaper revenue?
News of the weird, or over the top sells, if you can sell bad news your making bank, and thats why you have channels reporting anything that may be seen as controversial or horrible.
It sells.
Except that newspapers don't make a profit. In the U.K. the only newspaper that does make a profit is The Sun. And all the newspapers and TV networks and news programmes are run by the same people anyway. Reuters has the entire world's mass media by the balls. The media definately have an agenda when they cover anything, but it isn't direct profit through sales and viewings. It's job is to keep everyone blind and worshipping and serving the status quo. How exactly does massive coverage of MJ's death achieve this? I don't know, The Lord works in mysterious ways...