Posted by rippon |
- It's called "competition"...
Posted by jo abbess
on November 2, 2009, 7:40 pm, in reply to "Why do BBC and C4 always have the same headlines?"...the race to be the worst propagandists, usually.
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: Now, I understand the arguments for why the
: mainstream media outlets always display the
: same political biases.
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: But why do BBC and C4 always have the same
: headline stories? - How does that work.
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http://www.joabbess.com - Re: It's called "competition"...
Posted by rippon
on November 2, 2009, 7:53 pm, in reply to "It's called "competition"..."I think my query is not clear enough.
Today, there is a story about parents lying on application forms to get their children into popular schools.
How is that both BBC and C4 have decided to headline that?
For example, in pursing their competition "to be the worst propagandists", one of them could easily have chosen, say, a health rather than education story to headline.
Moreover, the choice of which stories are worthy of headlining seems very uniform across all mainstream media. I expect this school-cheating story will be headlined in tomorrow's papers (if it wasn't already today).
One possible explanation is that all the outlets take their cue from one place (BBC perhaps?).
(I understand that this was the mechanism by which all western intelligence agencies concluded that Saddam possessed WMD - because they all based their intelligence on CIA intelligence.) - Nick Davies does explain this quite well in Flat Earth News...
Posted by JK
on November 2, 2009, 7:54 pm, in reply to "Why do BBC and C4 always have the same headlines?"Unfortunately I don't have it to hand at the moment. Perhaps somebody else does. 
- Thanks. I will read Davies' book (at some point). (nm)
Posted by rippon
on November 2, 2009, 11:04 pm, in reply to " Nick Davies does explain this quite well in Flat Earth News..."