[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

See, I used to think it was about the media pushing an agenda and wanting to portray things a certain way... But I've more recently started to think, does the media really want anything other than to make money and sell as many copies as possible? Does the media not just go with what's popular?

So it's not that the media "wants to sell" an image of the brown-immigrant-monster-on-your-street... It's just that they know that that's what their readers want to hear. If they start veering away from the accepted narrative of their regular consumers, then people will spit their cornflakes and get their morning outrage elsewhere.

People don't want to hear that "Little James Born And Bred Known His Parents Since He Was A Nipper" has become a violent thug. That upsets their comfortable worldview. They want to hear that strange others from faraway places are the ones to fear.

Well yeah, that's what I'm saying. Fear sells newspapers and fear and ignorance is almost always interlinked hence why most newspapers won't refer to crimes like this as terrorism, because they want their boogeyman to have brown skin and to quote the Quran. It's simply more profitable to appeal to people's prejudices when it comes to profiting from their fear.