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    1. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14

      Hopefully this will remain a matter of academic and media studies interest only. But it is worth considering why much of cable news has become a nonstop cheerleading for the US to declare war on Russia, often via a 'no fly zone'.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 14
      Replying to @joshtpm

      My thinking on this is that CNN really first burst into public consciousness with the first Iraq War, so producers of cable news know on some instinctive level that war is good for business.

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        1. Diana Zicklin Berrent‏Verified account @dianaberrent Mar 14
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          Remember the Scud Stud?

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        1. Matthew‏ @Roland00Address Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Cable News to me feels like the Cigarette industry from time to time.

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        2. TavernJen 🍸 🌻‏ @TavernWench Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Not to put too cynical a spin on it, but, May Sweeps are just around the corner.

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        3. H Incandenza‏ @BurkeThos Mar 14
          Replying to @TavernWench @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          <Groans> knowing you're unfortunately right.

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        2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I don't think it's mainly that. I think it is more that American society has developed a feedback loop between terrible things we see on TV and what many understand as a kind of global hegemon time out which goes under the label of a "no fly zone".

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        3. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14
          Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

          2/ One of the most striking things is that a lot of people seem surprised or shocked when someone tells them that means going to war. There's very little lived experience of war with a peer military power, let along a nuclear power.

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        2. Manzell‏ @BeezyManzell Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          I can't *actually believe* that they're that callous. I've seen The Wire. Dysfunction comes from small players acting upon their small incentives within the system; dysfunction is the emergent behavior.

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        3. Carter Sibley‏ @OverKAnalytics Mar 14
          Replying to @BeezyManzell @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Perverse incentives -> selection effects -> hawkish media. It's not that they're consciously making a callous decision for ratings; it's that only uncritical cheerleaders for foreign intervention make it up the ranks.

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        1. C. O’Pardy‏ @AuraLeeHarvey Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          CNN “burst into the public consciousness” with the fall of the Soviet Union. For one.

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        1. Lisa Hoke 🗽‏ @lrhoke Mar 14
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          I’ve always been a news junkie compared to most of my peers but I was watching CNN before 1980 Which was when I graduated high school and started college. I really miss the 20th century CNN. More news than talking heads.

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