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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf We Had An Honest & Decent Media Right Now GOP Would Be On The Run
A lot of the MSM is covering for the GOP and giving them legitimacy. And RW talk radio and Fox are running interference and working very hard on blaming the Dems. Many parts of the country only hear RW propaganda now because of consolidation. The internet and social media are about the only media left.
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If We Had An Honest & Decent Media Right Now GOP Would Be On The Run (Original Post)
TheMastersNemesis
Oct 2013
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stevenleser
(32,886 posts)1. Some of us are trying!!!!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)2. duh
They would have died fifteen years ago. Any suggestions?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)3. The GOP would be very different from what we see today
and for that matter, so would the Democratic Party.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)4. No question about it.
The Democratic Party is to the right of the people on many issues. The only reason the Republican Party can survive is because the mainstream media frames every argument to favor their positions.
reddread
(6,896 posts)5. who did what to whom when and for how many peanuts?
http://www.globalization101.org/deregulation
http://www.ibltv.org/FCCDeregulation.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1513870/Television-in-the-United-States/283644/Reorganization-and-deregulation
never forget who created Capital Cities.
never forget Westmoreland's threats against CBS' news department.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmoreland_v._CBS
dont forget Operation Tailwind,
and the TANG blowback to Dan Rather's long career.
aint nothing on the TV that is healthy or useful.
and scarcely anything that is truly amusing or entertaining.
so why do people fork over?
http://www.ibltv.org/FCCDeregulation.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1513870/Television-in-the-United-States/283644/Reorganization-and-deregulation
never forget who created Capital Cities.
never forget Westmoreland's threats against CBS' news department.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmoreland_v._CBS
dont forget Operation Tailwind,
and the TANG blowback to Dan Rather's long career.
aint nothing on the TV that is healthy or useful.
and scarcely anything that is truly amusing or entertaining.
so why do people fork over?