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BlueCaliDem

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8. Righteous rant, Tx4Obama!
Sat May 18, 2013, 11:57 PM
May 2013
and rec'd!

But if you're going to hold your breath and wait for pro-Republican corporate media to report fairly, please don't.

It needs to be said loud and widely . . . we don't have a fourth estate anymore!

We need to stop making excuses like: they only want to sell advertising, or they want a quick story, or Democrats don't know how to do messaging. We need to understand and accept that all media in this country have usurped our fourth estate and have been bought and taken over to become corporate propaganda outlets for the sole purpose of promoting corporate power and eventual reign through their chosen political party.

This is why I keep saying and will keep saying, that there is no such thing as a bully pulpit. That died after the FDR presidency. This is no longer FDRs America. The sooner our side understands this painful but liberating fact, the sooner we can finally be critical and cautious about the beltway media, the broadcast media, the cable media, the print media, and our radio airwaves media.

Until that time, we're nothing but easy prey.

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