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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by sage_joch on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:14PM (#6073324)
Because a big part of these stories is how they are being spun and downplayed by the corporate media. Reddit is one of the few places in which such stories (concerning the loss of individual rights and government checks and balances) can still reach a large audience. And /r/news is one of the few remaining default subreddits that is relevant to such stories. For it to be deleted right as it is about to reach the front page is concerning, because we need an informed public now more than ever.
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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by cheald on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:04PM (#6073514)
Technically speaking, isn't Wired "corporate media"?
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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by sage_joch on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:15PM (#6073555)
Technically yes, and so is Reddit. I need a better word to describe organizations like CNN, MSNBC and Fox that make concerted efforts to divide and distract. Maybe I should have just said "cable news".
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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by specialist on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:49PM (#6073664)
"Corporate media" is a term which refers to a system of mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations and their CEOs. It is sometimes used as a term of derision to indicate a media system which does not serve the public interest in place of the mainstream media or "MSM," which tends to be used by both the political left and the right as a derisive term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_media

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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by cheald on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:50PM (#6073669)
Now explain to me why Wired doesn't fit that definition.
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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by specialist on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:58PM (#6073701)
No contest. I don't read Wired. Too corporate.
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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by cheald on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:18PM (#6073762)
Haha, okay. I misinterpreted the Wikipedia quote as a correction of my original comment. Sorry!
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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by kunai on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:18PM (#6073336)
AFAIK the post was deleted because of a misleading title.
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Re:NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say by n09n on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:54PM (#6073478)
Sure, but is presenting sensationalized articles to online echo chambers really getting us closer to an informed public, or further away?
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