The Walmart-tization of Mass Media

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Take news gathering for example. The big one, AOL Time Warner's CNN waters down its news by giving their viewers what they think they want to hear in hoping they stay tuned for the next commecial break, so in turn reassures the stock holders of this publicly traded company as oppose to something like the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) whose mandate is to inform what their viewers should know, which isn't subject to market forces as CNN is because the CBC is a Crown Corp. (federally funded).