"Our viewers don't really consider us the news." //

Perkary said a ‘high profile TV veteran” once told her, “We are a cancer and there is no cure. But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.” She added: “As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis.”

And of course it’s always about the ratings.

“The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.”