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2016 Postmortem

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)

3. "News" for sale: "money is speech" and the sky is the limit.

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 3, 2016, 01:54 PM

Jul 2016

The measure of a person, is the thickness of their wallet, not the content
of their character.

Soon no-one who is alive will even remember when the news was actually news,
and not an infomercial pretending to be news.

Resulting in a GE where both party's nominees are the least trusted in history.

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Fake "News" Factories: M$M Offering Interviews for Sale at DNC & RNC Conventions [View all] 99th_Monkey Jul 2016 OP

merchants in the temple of the public interest reddread Jul 2016 #1

"Thought Leader"? WTF?????? hobbit709 Jul 2016 #2

"News" for sale: "money is speech" and the sky is the limit. 99th_Monkey Jul 2016 #3

precisely reddread Jul 2016 #5

I have always believed that with the Citizens United MADem Jul 2016 #4