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malletgirl02

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6. Slightly off topic Downton Abbey

Reply to Redfairen (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 11:56 PM

Feb 2014

I always had a tinfoil hat theory that PBS was suing Downton Abbey to soften our opinion towards the 1%. This shows maybe my theroy wasn't so tin foil after all.

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The Wolf of Sesame Street: Revealing the secret corruption inside PBS's news division [View all] Redfairen Feb 2014 OP

Oh who can you believe in anymore? Armstead Feb 2014 #1

No one. 840high Feb 2014 #3

We used to laugh at the Soviet Press... hunter Feb 2014 #2

I don't know if it's more "insidious" than the Soviet Union and Cha Feb 2014 #5

Yep, who isn't on the Cha Feb 2014 #4

Slightly off topic Downton Abbey malletgirl02 Feb 2014 #6

Didn't see that series, but watched many others and they seemed to reinforce the master and servant freshwest Feb 2014 #8

Between this and the Kochs Triana Feb 2014 #7

K&R burrowowl Feb 2014 #9

The media is now wall to wall propaganda. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #10

So the NewsHour is not reliable? alp227 Feb 2014 #11