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Tom Ricks to MSNBC: You're Just Like Fox, Only Not as Good at It

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CuriousLurker11/28/2012 6:00:51 pm PST

re: #13 researchok

Sure, the partisan aspect is definitely a problem, but nowadays it seems to be what sells so that enormous multi-national corporations can continue making billions of dollars. It wasn’t like that back in the day.

It’s kind of scary. If it weren’t for the new media channels like Twitter, etc. there wouldn’t be any alternative really except for the traditional public outlets like ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. And those stations simply don’t have enough air time to sufficiently cover all the news. That leaves newspapers, some of which are also quite partisan (and many of which are also owned by big corporations). The fourth estate is damned near dead.

It’s a fine fix we’ve gotten ourselves into. *sigh*