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In reply to the discussion: Des Moines Register's accuracy [View all]

rurallib

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6. Since Gannett bought them I look at their endorsements and editorials
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 03:16 PM
Jan 2016

as regurgitating the corporate line.
I doubt many Iowans cared before they were sold what their endorsements were. Now I doubt they influence anyone at all.

But boy oh boy does the corporate media ever play up what the corporate media does at a local level.

I just could not imagine a corporate owned newspaper anywhere in the US - especially a Gannett paper - endorsing Sanders. Well, maybe they'd let the outlet in Iowa City do it, but even that would be doubtful.

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