It may be telling that Bill O'Reilly hosts a FOX News show called 'The No-Spin Zone'. If anything can be said of O'Reilly and FOX News, it is that spin is their Raison D'être as it were.
Today many, if not most, westerners gather their daily dosage of current events from television. This medium--this message (to pull a page from Marshall McLuhan)--focuses on entertaining before informing, because after all, revenue is driven by commercials, which are driven by sales, which are driven by entertained people.
Beyond simple entertainment, 24-hour news aims to engage the viewer--not in any intellectual manner however, but immerse them in a realm of tension and hesitancy, where they can seek comfort in familiar things.
Why?
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