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Sun Mar 26, 2017, 10:13 PM Mar 2017

America's for-profit media corporations catastrophically failed us [View all]




America's for-profit media corporations failed in their duty to society in 2016 to a catastrophic degree.
There will be a reckoning.
-Eric Garland

He's talking about the Washington Post article by Palmieri, where she said the Clinton campaign tried to get the attention of the media about Russia and no one in the mainstream media was interested. And he's talking about the ratings-seeking behavior of CNN and CBS and NBC, not just Fox NC. (CBS CEO: "Trump is bad for America but great for CBS- the money is rolling in!!&quot .

Ken Tremendous (creator of Parks and Rec, an amazing piece of progressive entertainment) is on the same page:

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