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ForgoTheConsequence

(4,869 posts) Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:55 PM Dec 2012

The media in this country should be ashamed.

They're more concerned about being first than being right. The media in this country publishes any unconfirmed blurp that comes across Twitter and it immediately enters the echo chamber. Shame on them.

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The media in this country should be ashamed. (Original Post) ForgoTheConsequence Dec 2012 OP

Half the problems of this country can be laid at the feet of SomethingFishy Dec 2012 #1

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)

1. Half the problems of this country can be laid at the feet of

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:57 PM

Dec 2012

a complicit and useless media that values opinions more than facts... The best line in Game Change was when Steve Schmidt(Woody Harrelson) told Sarah Palin that "no news story lasts more than 48 hours, it's just entertainment".

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