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Mon Aug-31-09 06:16 PM
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Here's a big problem - the media shows both sides as if they are both the truth - re health care

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debate. This is a problem that has been obvious since Bush stole office...er, took office. The media hides behind this "fair and balanced, we need to show both sides" mantra. Yet in the case of the Health Care debate (well, in the case of most everything the past 8 years), that is a non-starter. One side has been clearly wrong and/or blatantly lying - the right wing noise machine. So the public are not at all being served by having lies elevated to equivalence with the truth.

Which is, of course, just the way the right wing-owned, big business, corporate main stream media wants it.

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