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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Remember the Scud Stud?
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Cable News to me feels like the Cigarette industry from time to time.
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Not to put too cynical a spin on it, but, May Sweeps are just around the corner.
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<Groans> knowing you're unfortunately right.
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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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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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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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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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CNN “burst into the public consciousness” with the fall of the Soviet Union. For one.
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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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