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BumRushDaShow

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1. "isn’t the media’s job to police political ideologies"
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:40 PM
Feb 2012

Yet in reality, this is precisely what they do 24/7/365. They insist on "interpreting", "defining", "parsing", and finally sound-biting policy and current events in a biased way. Freak perspectives that no self-respecting journalist would ever have see the light of day, becomes the "norm". They are also good at exaggeration and creating tabloid controversies using unimportant fringe issues in order to get ratings - essentially throwing the gasoline on a fire in order to encourage people to tune them in to watch the disaster of their own making.

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