I think investors and the US government got a lot better at controlling the news during the Bush administration, and in the intervening 16-20 years, media people have built their entire careers in that environment. The state department gives the juiciest war news to people who parrot their press releases, so those people advance. The news companies are owned by billionaires with other more profitable investments than the news, who can block advancement for anyone who pushes a story that’d hurt one of those, including talking about climate change. People who do well in this sort of environment have had 20 years to float to the top, and don’t need any special coercion to keep pushing the latest war and ignoring something that might be inconvenient to an investor.
I think investors and the US government got a lot better at controlling the news during the Bush administration, and in the intervening 16-20 years, media people have built their entire careers in that environment. The state department gives the juiciest war news to people who parrot their press releases, so those people advance. The news companies are owned by billionaires with other more profitable investments than the news, who can block advancement for anyone who pushes a story that’d hurt one of those, including talking about climate change. People who do well in this sort of environment have had 20 years to float to the top, and don’t need any special coercion to keep pushing the latest war and ignoring something that might be inconvenient to an investor.