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Pekary describes this as a “cancer” that “stokes national division” amid the civil unrest in the country, “risks human lives” during the pandemic, and threatens “our democracy" with the election coming up. “The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings,” she writes.

Stating the obvious. At least she woke up.

4 posted on 08/04/2020 8:20:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: 1Old Pro

RE: At least she woke up.

Does that make her “woke”?


5 posted on 08/04/2020 8:21:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: 1Old Pro
“It’s possible that I’m more sensitive to the editorial process due to my background in public radio, where no decision I ever witnessed was predicated on how a topic or guest would 'rate.'

On the other hand this mentality was common in the old USSR where party leaders would "suggest" mass production of books on subjects like tractor repair... ignoring the 'wants' of their people.

When was the last time any of us listened to NPR?

15 posted on 08/04/2020 8:44:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Leo Terrell - Michael Shellenberger - Stephen Hsu - Bari Weiss .- Bernell Trammell - John Kass)
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To: 1Old Pro

At least she woke up.


Maybe. It is still a victory if her liberalism got fed up with the leftism.


27 posted on 08/06/2020 11:00:47 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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