An excellent, well reasoned response with research to back it up.
The reasons the networks aren't rational capitalists is because they are
liberally biased (that is: liberal). They cannot reason and driven by
self-loathing. Liberalism is the result of one or more mental disorders. In
our capitalist economic system they will suffer the rational outcome of
their bias - they will go belly up. The financial momentum of the news
leviathens just delay the day that they become fertilizer.



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Its a legitimate theory. IF the media is liberal, then they are alienating
a
portion of the potential audience. That might explain why ratings for the
big
3 network news shows are dropping and Fox is rising. But it also begs the
question whether the networks aren't rational capitalist organizations -
viz,
why allow this situation to continue. Here is the Stanford/UCLA study
(Doug,
potshots away):

http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/MediaBias.doc