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In article <1992Dec18.201441.7735@sco.com>, erics@sco.COM (eric smith) writes...
>and in each case the prime motive is sales. You want to intellectualize
>it to show that you understand the subtle turnings of American journalism,
>but sometimes it's really just more simple than that.


Starvation in Somalia at Christmastime? It's highly unlikely
that the massive coverage given to this story has anything to
do with earning money for the news media.

The idea that only money drives the press is a short-circuit
that keeps people blissfully ignorant of the extent to which they
are being manipulated -- or educated, depending on your point of
view -- by what appears to be nothing more than a series of news
reports. 

How did Negroes become blacks? How did vagrants become the 
homeless? Through a second-order agea on the part of editors
that had nothing to do with making money.