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Essay / Media Influence on Public Opinion - 1547
Since many television networks profit from producing entertaining television shows, their acquisitions have transformed emerging network news content in three ways Distinct: • News adopts the values of the network's parent company which in turn introduces extreme levels of partisanship and censorship, according to the network. • There is a tendency to make news more entertaining and "catchy" in an attempt to achieve high profits seen in the programming of parent network television shows. • In an effort to increase profits and reduce costs, the number of foreign bureaus was closed and the number of journalists employed was significantly reduced. In summary, the emergence of media giants decreases competition within media, which shrinks the media market. ideas, eliminates the incentive for quality news reporting and induces media bias.IV. Media bias stimulated by ideological considerations