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To: SirLinksalot; CasearianDaoist; headsonpikes; beyond the sea; E.G.C.; Military family member; ...
Journalism is the business of attracting attention by the use of topical nonfiction. So while most of life, for most people, is muddling through mundane problems and earning a living, in the artificial reality of journalism most of the discussion is about unusual - primarily unusually bad things.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate


6 posted on 03/14/2006 3:47:41 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

MSM 'journalism' is the Matrix!


10 posted on 03/14/2006 4:40:25 PM PST by johnny7 (“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
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The grocery line tabloids have electronic equivalents in ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and friends. They share the same level of credibility.

If a Democrat were POTUS, the good news would be endless - the bad spiked.


12 posted on 03/14/2006 9:47:20 PM PST by auboy
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BTTT


14 posted on 03/15/2006 3:05:36 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

*PING*


15 posted on 03/17/2006 9:01:55 PM PST by T Lady (The Mainstream Media: Public Enemy #1)
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