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Re:I Am Deleting the Blog by stock_toaster on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:04AM (#23611885)
I often wonder if the news/media has been purposefully weakened as an institution over time, so as to keep the populace more ignorant and controllable by people in power.

I guess it goes in cycles though. Apparently in the 1890s it was _actually worse_!?

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Re:I Am Deleting the Blog by Mirioron on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:56AM (#23612282)
I don't think the media has been weakened. I think that the media has always been this bad. Perhaps even worse. The public just didn't know about it, because it was a lot harder to verify the facts through other means.
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