Reply #109: I see what you mean...

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We've always had a corporate media. But with the end of the fairness doctrine in the 80s...Clinton's telecommunications bill in the 90s and Bush's takeover of the FCC by installing Powell's son...dozens of smaller media outlets were absorbed by large corporations owned by RWing ideologues. It seems many Americans don't understand that reporters and 'journalists' are like most other workers in that they report what they're told to report by the owners or they find themselves out of a job.

To make matters worse...many of these media giants are part of an even larger corporation with subsidiaries in the energy and defense industries. If one of their subsidiarites is being paid millions or billions to build warplanes or missile defense systems...they're much more reluctant to report fraud, waste and abuse related to these industries.

This used to be called a 'conflict of interest'...but in new America it's called good business.