Reply #1: Either the government would have to regulate the partisan activities

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of the media, which isn't likely to happen or they would have to be paid more money than they now are getting from Republicans to cease their partisan political activity and that would take more money that the Dems could raise.

It's interesting to note that when H.Dean was running for the Presidency, one week after he stated publicly that he intended to curtail partisan activities of the media, the famous "Dean Scream" situation occurred, ending his campaign abruptly. The networks admitted that the depictions of Dean doing the "scream" were deliberately distorted.