The Epstein case really puts the lie to the notion that the corporate media is in it for clicks. No story would get more clicks and yet they ignore it.
They are in it for top-down control.
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In it for the clicks within the guardrails set for them via 1. owners and 2. bureaucratic retaliation
Sure, for trivial things, but any important story is off limits.
That's what I mean by guardrails. Just saying that the clicks incentive is strong and pervasive, even for "important" stories like the Trump trial. There are no guardrails about being disparaging toward him, and even minutiae generate entire stories presumably because of the clicks.
Yes. But even those trials are trivial things — mostly theater for deranged partisans.
It’s like there are two divisions: one entertainment (clicks) and another journalism (zero interest in clicks.) In fact, they actively publish stories to deflect attention and reduce clicks (damage control/limited hangout pieces.)
