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What exactly... do they think is going to happen when news outlets hear this?

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• joshmn 7y ago
  The 30 minute news cycle we've had for the last 3 years of course.
  • isoskeles 7y ago
    Yeah unlike when the Patriot Act passed, and the news media spoke truth to power or whatever, and saved us all from that treasonous law. Apologies for the snark but it’s been like this for more than 20 years.
    • thundergolfer 7y ago
      To add to your comment. Manufacturing Consent came out in 1988, 31 years ago. That book manfully built the case that this stuff has been going on for well over a century, but that it really kicked up in the post WW2 era with the erosion of labour-class news media. Today 6 US media companies control 90% of US media, and any hope one has of the internet disarming them dims more than a little at the sight of a P.A.T.R.I.O.T act author crossing over into the arms of a tech giant.