The three major TV networks and Fox News didn't carry President Obama’s high-profile address about immigration reform last Thursday
night.
So I guess it’s more or less official—in case you were still
wondering—the networks and Fox care more about entertaining their prime-time
audiences than they do about bringing real news to the American public.
The president’s executive action on minimizing deportations
and on other elements of reforming America’s sadly oppressive immigration
policies has stirred up a hornet’s nest in Congress and across the land.
The networks and Fox knew this would happen—everybody knew
it would happen, we just didn’t know the big fat details until Thursday night.
A presidential address on a subject of immense importance to
millions of immigrant Americans, and a subject of immense controversy among our
political leadership and tens of millions of Americans, is the kind of thing
that should be broadcast as widely as possible.
What were the networks and Fox thinking?
Ooops, I forgot….November is ratings sweeps month for the TV
industry….and the ratings racked up during the month-long audience-counting
sweeps period are the basis for establishing TV advertising rates.
Entertainment and cash flow. That’s what it’s all about.
p.s. the president’s address was vintage Obama, regardless
of your political position, it’s worth watching it here
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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