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merrily

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5. Media have divorced themselves from their proper role in our society.

Reply to railsback (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 03:03 AM

Feb 2013

They're now folks who carry gossip and direction our attention to shiny things.

Sometimes, they are propagandists.

Almost never are they journalists worthy of respect.

Finally, with all due respect to untrained citizen journalists, about 95% of them are nowhere near as good as they believe they are.

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