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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 10:58 AM Sep 2016

The Corporate Media Is A Complete and Unmitigated Disaster



Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio speaks with Cliff Schecter about the total failure that the corporate controlled media has become, and how the days of true mainstream journalism are long and gone.
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The Corporate Media Is A Complete and Unmitigated Disaster (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2016 OP
Bernie is right, we have to bust up the media and Wall Street bank oligarchies and end campaign Dustlawyer Sep 2016 #1
LOL. You mean the "LIBERAL" media? ErikJ Sep 2016 #2
Hell - apparently Democrats should consider S.C. nominee Thiel. Missn-Hitch Sep 2016 #3

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
1. Bernie is right, we have to bust up the media and Wall Street bank oligarchies and end campaign
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 12:13 PM
Sep 2016

donations. We need Publicly Funded Elections to attack the root problem facing our Democracy. The ability of the oligarchs to control our politicians and the media to control what we think.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
2. LOL. You mean the "LIBERAL" media?
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 01:59 PM
Sep 2016

As the Cons say. I think they should break them up and make all media news departments as non-profit entities like it used to be before Reagan. That would help a lot. Right now they see it as info-tainment for more eyeballs, so only cover the sexier stuff. Issues arent particularly "sexy" so they dont want to discuss them.

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