This is the overarching truth right now. PROGRAMMING. It's called programming for a reason. I repeat this as often as I can... I have been in the entertainment industry for many years. I tell people every chance I get that the news media is made by the same people who make Marvel multiverse tv shows, super hero movies, car chases that defy physics, doctor shows, cop shows, and fake scenes of all kinds, from crowds to natural disasters. They can make hundreds of latex masks OVERNIGHT, and change someone from a human to a ghoul in an instant. The news production buildings are on the same production lots as all the fake productions, prop houses, wardroobe, and in some cases right next to the theme parks. Fake news. Fake fake fake. The laugh track mocking programming is something that once you say, " That's not funny", and you here it consciously you start wondering why it's there and why it's STILL there, and BEEN there for so long! It's programming compliance, and it's mocking something, so you're embarrassed or easily controlled if someone laughs at you. Hollywood is a sick twisted place!