When Corporate Media Sold Us Out
The signs were there as early as 2016. In February of that year, then CBS executive chairman and CEO Les Moonves took to the stage at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco and said this about Donald Trumps presidential candidacy:
It may not be good for America, but its damn good for CBS.
He added, Man, who would have expected the ride were all having right now?
The moneys rolling in and this is fun.
Moonves was relishing the chaos Trump was bringing to the 2016 presidential election cycle and its benefit to CBS bottom line. Ive never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us, he bragged. Sorry. Its a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/when-corporate-media-sold-us-out

bronxiteforever
(10,772 posts)drmeow
(5,761 posts)It started with in 1996 with the founding of Fox New.
In print media it started with the LA Times which "In 1999, ... broke the firewall between the paper's editorial and advertising departments."
Like all other right wing "we have to be richer and more powerful all the time" changes it has been a gradual but insidious slide into propaganda.