I have been looking for reasons that might explain the shift in news coverage from the Comcast news outlets which used to be neutral and have taken a sharp turn to the left. Some insight came from an unusual place, the Comcast annual report.
The report has a map of subscribers for Comcast and as soon as I came to it, the radical turn seemed to make more sense. The bulk of Comcast subscribers are in Blue states, those that lean to Democratic Party. Most of them are in New England, New York, and the North West above San Francisco. The map is on page 3 and is illuminating. These are the strongholds of the Left that characterizes itself as Progressive, which sounds better than the Left.
So, if you were Comcast and you wanted to boost subscribers in one of these areas, it makes sense to swing your coverage to the Left.
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