Money, power, and fame. You may say that they chose it. But things are – as usual – more complicated.
Since capitalism is in the absolute majority of examples ruling of the richest class, the super-rich groups (the puppet masters, the crony capitalists) are intertwined with journalists and politicians.
You may say the super-rich own the media and it is true, but journalists may be controlled by other means – advertising agencies and background powerful constellations (it was said one Czech oligarch controlled media without owning them). It should also be noted that politicians also have an influence on the media.
You can never be a politician without being approved by the super-rich groups. They control the party’s hierarchy from the upside down, they give money for the campaign and give you space in the media.
In the Czech Republic, journalists say they are better than politicians, and politicians say they are better than journalists (relatively) since they both do dirty jobs for the super-rich (what to release, what to not release). In my humble opinion, the journalists are worse in absolute terms because they are hiding the truth (98 % of politics is in the background), therefore lying about the state of affairs, meanwhile, the politicians at least do something.
The same goes basically with political scientists (since they don’t reflect there is a background). Let’s pretend a journalist writes A is connected to B event, meanwhile, C is negative. Wrong! 98 % of it is in the background (D is connected to E while B is true when A means nothing – this is just an example).
Of course, politicians do the same – to a lesser extent – but they do at least something meanwhile journalists just lie, pretend and fool people!
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