Over at Hullabaloo, in a comment thread discussing the Jameil Hussein clusterfuck, commenter Bob makes a good if depressing observation:
[…] It seems to me that you don’t need biased news organizations to control the news, you merely need overworked reporters working for companies who don’t really care about the quality of their product. Once you have that, the political organizations who work hardest at framing (message discipline, etc) can control the stories that get told.
There are obviously many problems with this as the fundamental mechanism for informing society, but I’ll just point out one: Groups that are more strongly organized (top-down, disciplined, anti-democratic) will probably do a better job of framing stories than groups where everyone thinks and speaks for themselves.
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