Giant corporations keep a constant eye on the bottom lines of all their subsidiaries. This pressure to turn a profit leads to staff cuts that force smaller numbers of people to produce larger amounts of work in a lesser amount of time. This constant pressure to perform leads to sloppy journalism and cookie-cutter media recipes that have been used over and over in the past but have been proven money. Giant media conglomerations contribute to the blandness and ordinariness that is so prevalent in the mass media today.
There is so much that is the same in the media that it is hard to point out what is different. “Reality” television spilled over to