
The Reactionary Mind with Michael Warren Davis
The Theology Pugcast
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Modern News Is a Product to Be Marketable
William F. Buckley was a pioneer of newstainment, the idea that the news should be done in a way that's entertaining so that it becomes a marketable product. When you treat news as a product to be sold, then obviously it changes the way that news is reported because everyone has an opinion. "I grew up in a world of Walter Cronkite, Brinkley, I can't remember his partner's name"
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