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Originally Posted by Guest
First, the newscaster is not the one who decides what will be on the news that night.
Secondly, the production staff will take news that the viewing public wants to see for more than one night. The videos of airline passengers getting badly treated gets a larger share of viewers than more than one story of a state trooper murder. The airline passenger stories affect more Americans so that is what is shown - rightly or wrongly.
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Media saturation drives public opinion as was evident with the elections of Obama and Trump. United Aitlines lives or dies by public opinion so had absolutely no choice but to quickly pay a hugh settlement as NBC had their finger heavily on the scale. As far as what the public wants to see that is called entertainment, no longer news. IMO