Letters to the Editor
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Weed out the best, idiots take care of the rest
These corporations employs thousands of people. Isn't it weird that none of them -- not a single one - -has ever revealed the Great Corporate Plot whereby corporate heads tell the pundits and reporters what to say? You would think at least one of them would spill the beans on the conspiracy.
-- GlennGreenwald
That is because there is no conspiracy, per se. I read a book in the 1980's, (I'm sorry I do not remember the name of the book or the author) written by an African American female. She catalogued the various ways people like her, ie free thinking, aggressive, independent journalists, were pushed out by corporate media outlets (I think she worked for ABC) in favor of brown nosing corporate careerists who were predisposed to toe the company line just to get ahead.
If this is actually the case, and I have no reason to doubt it given the abundant evidence apparent in the kind of "news" we get, plus a rudimentary understanding of how one gets ahead in the corporate world, there is no need for a conspiracy, at least among the reporters themselves. Such corporate shills are clueless in more ways than one. They are the bottom of the barrel, scum of the crop, pushed ahead at the expense of real journalists. These people actually think they represent the best of the best because of their easy glide up the corporate ladder, which explains the incredible arrogance on constant display. How many times have we heard one of them say or imply, in one form or another, something like "But you can trust me, why would I lie, I am a serious journalist, I work for WaPo, or NYT, or or.." while writing or spouting some fact-free piece which just happens to track exactly with admin or corporate lies?
The conspiracy began at the very top to form a confederacy of dunces. The rest took care of itself.