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Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy

Folks, this isn't just the report of someone hoping to save their job. It's a proclamation of the dark future in store for us all if we don't begin to realize the value of journalism in a free society.

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Journalist Chris Hedges reports on the decline of the newspaper industry and how this is leading us further down the dark path of a total corporate takeover of the information we receive.

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  • http://pjungle.blogspot.com Oswald Heston

    unfortunately, if you read Marshall McLuhan, it boils down to this: in the future, the media will be reduced to this, but with a Pepsi ad worked in among the text:
    http://punditkitchen.com/

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