DU users routinely and quickly ask the questions that corporate media NEVER ask

[Stardust Mirror]

It's not rocket science. We do it every day, but somehow news organizations can't manage.

It's almost as if they're not there to report news but to generate revenue. Talking heads, no input into what is reported. Just there in hopes to get near to power.

[leftieNanner]

1. On rare occasion

The media might ask a thoughtful question, but the answer would be total gish gallop. None of the repugs ever answer any truly difficult questions.

[cachukis]

2. It has occurred to me on many occassions

that the reporters go into the interview with prepared questions from their producers and or editors.
They are not particularly well read up on the subtleties in the issues.
How often do we rethink our conversations regretting a mishandle or missed opportunity to get clarity?
We are news junkies and have time to ponder.
Politicians achieve a lot of their success with obfuscation and avoidance. They have image teams for their fans.
The Daily Show correspondent follow up to their unsuspecting idolators.
But even they don't ask the simple, "What makes you think that way, or why have you not considered this?"
Chuck Todd, revealed once, that he would not ask the hard questions on Meet The Press because he needed access to keep ratings.
Phil Donohue knew he couldn't get the big timers to Dayton so he contrived a different perspective. It was ALL about the questions.
That worked magic in Dayton, but not so well in New York.
We all lose in the ratings game. Least common denominator is all about the money.

[malaise]

3. It's almost as if they're not there to report news but to generate revenue

Almost?
Profits and the owners’ agendas

[struggle4progress]

4. Read Herman & Chomsky "Manufacturing Consent"

There are thousands of tiny pressures on people, from the people they associate with due to their economic status, through their employers expectations of them, to the information they consume from sources they consider acceptable

As Chomsky has pointed out, economically successful people can sometimes be the greatest consumers of propaganda

Developing critical consciousness isn't automatic: it can take constant work to swim through that environment of pre-existing messages

[Stardust Mirror]

5. read that decades ago, plus many of his other books

this book lays it out pretty clearly as well:

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Believe-Media-Entertainment-Michael-Parenti/dp/0312056036

[ms liberty]

6. There was a documentary about it, too. I saw it on FSTV back in the 00's

And how strange is it that the 00's was 20 years ago now?

[Think. Again.]

7. Fixed it for ya...

"It's almost as if because they're not there to report news but to generate revenue."