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Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
5. True Dat!
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 11:36 AM
Sep 2017

I watched BP control the media along the Gulf Coast with their ad dollars. No negative victim stories were reported or they would lose the huge advertising money BP was paying. The national news was the same way, they promised to follow up on the story after they capped the well, but very little happened. Virtually nothing about how badly the litigation went and is still going.

BP even went so far as to buy up almost all of the documentaries that were about to come out!

Next to campaign finance, the second thing that should be addressed should be busting up the media and banking oligarchies, revamp the FCC and put a truth requirement in news broadcasting and punditry. Propaganda by big money is killing this country!

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