What is one person's "news" is another's "tittle-tattle".
The media companies create news by choosing what to headline and focus on, as much as what slant is then put on it. There is then a 'herd mentality' to these topics.
That is where it becomes dangerous/influential depending on your point of view.
Watching the US networks coverage of the Trump disgrace last week shocked me how opinionated the presenters were. Not the interviewees, the presenters. If Huw Edwards or Tom Bradby did that, there would be outcry. They made Piers Morgan look like Richard Dimbleby.
The media companies create news by choosing what to headline and focus on, as much as what slant is then put on it. There is then a 'herd mentality' to these topics.
That is where it becomes dangerous/influential depending on your point of view.
Watching the US networks coverage of the Trump disgrace last week shocked me how opinionated the presenters were. Not the interviewees, the presenters. If Huw Edwards or Tom Bradby did that, there would be outcry. They made Piers Morgan look like Richard Dimbleby.