They do have preferences because they work in jobs and those jobs have managers and owners. News media companies are companies and have company cultures. People who work in car dealerships know what their bosses want them to do. It's no different in news media jobs.
Also your average MAGAt hates CBS, ABC, CNN, etc yet these companies keep pandering to them at the expense of their actual viewership. The only reason for this is that they are ideologically aligned with Trump on at least some level.
The management and owners like Trump. They are not Fox News because their audience is not Fox News. The more liberally audience, the more work they have to do to make the audience think that it's just some weird accidental preference for Trump, and here are your good investigations and puzzles.
What I meant was the companies themselves don't care. The people sure do, they just can't do anything about it.
Right, but having a different opinion than your leadership and being able to up and quit your job because of it are very different things. So even if everyone is a full blown lefty, political views don't put food on the table.
It doesn't matter what's in their head or heart, but what they do. That's what they get hired, fired, promoted on. E.g., it doesn't matter how many NYT employees are registered Democrats etc: when it's time to run a full-blown propaganda campaign against the Democratic candidate, they do it.
Exactly what I was saying. The companies have no preference. Whatever sells papers. Which makes the news media useless.
I'm sorry, I think the evidence is that this is just wrong. The evidence is that the owners and management do have an ideological preference and overwhelmingly it is conservative. It is not simply the immediate profit motive of sales and clicks.
could very easily be chicken and the egg. The owners are unfathomably rich, which leads to a conservative mindset. Who's to say which came first? It's certainly much easier to make money off of conservative government than liberal government.
I'm not saying management & owners favor conservatives from birth. They do so for both direct class interests & broader cultural & political aims which reinforce that. It doesn't matter to me how they began or what they think of themselves deep inside. We only need look at the institution's output.
Right, and the reason they're in those classes is capitalism. News shouldn't be a mechanism to get rich. They should have no owners other than the employees. Capital ownership of a news network or newspaper should be illegal or at least clearly branded as biased.