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All the major news outlets have advertisers. So, their profits are directly tied to the interests of their advertisers. Pressure is exercised in other ways too, but substantial work covers those topics--e.g. chapter one of Manufacturing Consent and discussion of the five filters. Anyway, since all the major media outlets hold profit to be their top priority--actually the corporate charter carries a federal mandate to do so--objective news reporting declines. If there does happen to be a flicker of news that does not support the interest of advertisers or stock-holders flip to the back of the papers. Or in this case, a script is gathering comments or posts, that carry flagged words and phrases, only to send them to the propaganda editor for review and summary deletion as necessary.