Seth Abramson: Sept. 2016 Christopher Steele briefed NYT, WA Post, CNN,

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10. Then blame the Supreme Court for defining money as speech

and blame Reagan for eliminating the Fairness Doctrine and blame Clinton for the Telecommunications Act. Be fair about it. When news production in the media became profit-centered, then news becomes entertainment and editors vie for the biggest audiences by tailoring their content to desired demographics consistent with their sponsors' marketing plans. All feedback loops have monetary values. All news media now engages in their own profit-driven formulas. This is what we get: a breathless engagement with candidate Trumpy because he's entertaining and funny and irreverent and loud. Trumpy was the perfect candidate for the media and for 60 million people, many of whom no longer understand the workings of their own government partly because there is no national desire to educate the public about how their government works. So we get a person who is NOT interested in knowing what the Bill of Rights is because a huge swath of the nation has no idea what the Bill of Rights is and doesn't care whether the president knows.

It's bad, folks.