Perhaps the result of good intentions? The “Golden Age of Journalism” was a period when the news was deliberately separated from profit, first on radio and then on TV. To get the effective monopoly over limited bandwidth, they had to provide REAL news as a public service. CNN broke journalism in the way shown in the cartoon, but FAUX broke it much more seriously. CNN was seriously seeking profit, but FAUX was really just a disguise for propaganda by people rich enough to pay for it.
Perhaps the result of good intentions? The “Golden Age of Journalism” was a period when the news was deliberately separated from profit, first on radio and then on TV. To get the effective monopoly over limited bandwidth, they had to provide REAL news as a public service. CNN broke journalism in the way shown in the cartoon, but FAUX broke it much more seriously. CNN was seriously seeking profit, but FAUX was really just a disguise for propaganda by people rich enough to pay for it.