to fill their otherwise dull programming schedule.
maybe this is just the same old cultural flaw at work: the thing that seems to matter most is money.
the networks want to sell ads. so they gin up the story to create outrage - by hyping a non-existent race hatred angle, for instance. the fake story generates outraged viewers. more viewers increase the broadcast yield.
it's all okay. because it sells ads.
forget the value of justice to a society and to every individual within it. forget the fact that news reporting is meant to have an obligation to objectivity.
the story of midas tells us that in the end, the excessive desire for money brings us to harm.
maybe those old tales had some wisdom in them after all. old saul of tarsus seems to have thought so, even if he overstated it.
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