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In reply to the discussion: Barney Frank drops a bombshell: How a shocking anecdote explains the financial crisis [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and things could have been made worse then with that bill if that had happened. With a book ready to be published, it will be harder for the corporate media to rewrite what he's trying to tell us now.
It is the common practice these days when someone comes out with a book trying to expose corporate shills or other problematic activity, that the author and his book are dismissed as being "he/she is selling a book" as if what they get back in sales is the only motivation for them writing it, as opposed to exposing truths that the corporate media has been paid to ignore in recent times.
If we had a better media landscape, then we might have more real time exposure of wrongdoing like what happened with Watergate than what we have today. Look at how Greenwald is also harassed and how he has to go so much to alternative news media sites instead of our "mainstream" (aka corrupt corporate) media to get his stories out.