Tradition!
reporter: “here’s my propaganda veiled thinly as a question” press sec: “here’s *my* propaganda veiled thinly as an answer” why are we still doing these?
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Better questions: why did Trump ruin these and why does 40% of the voting public not care? Stretch question: Also why does 40% of the public thoughtlessly parrot Hitler/Stalin? (“Lugenpresse”/“enemy of the people”)
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Some other good questionshttps://twitter.com/thepubliususa/status/1262709056160043008?s=21 …
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Both side-sing?
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Because there is a healthy market for propaganda
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They’re still doing it because they get paid well for it. Why we’re still buying it? I don’t know... We like watching car crashes? (For the record, I get physically nauseous watching press conferences, and I do everything I can to avoid watching them.)
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In a nutshell
Most newscasts are like Sesame Street without all the redeeming social values.(which are many!)
We've been trained to expect and be comforted by:
Puppets talking back and forth.
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we crave entertainment
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They actually stopped doing them for a while and I don’t think many people noticed
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Same reason POTUS made it there in the first place: Theater!pic.twitter.com/QOGoHYwM6L
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