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The history Starr presents might make you less sanguine about that (I told you there were some challenges in that book).

I'm under no illusion whatsoever about the extent of the historical ties between the Drive-By Media and Organized Government. Organized Government = Organized Crime?

Larry Schweikart (LS) thinks the future of newspapers is that the political parties will subsidized and operate them as house organs as was done in the 1800's. My thinking is that we won't be able to tell the difference from how it is now, lol.

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The history Starr presents might make you less sanguine about that (I told you there were some challenges in that book).

I'm under no illusion whatsoever about the extent of the historical ties between the Drive-By Media and Organized Government. Organized Government = Organized Crime?

Larry Schweikart (LS) thinks the future of newspapers is that the political parties will subsidized and operate them as house organs as was done in the 1800's. My thinking is that we won't be able to tell the difference from how it is now, lol.

Yes, after reading Starr I'll split the difference between the two of you - because Starr asserts that, contrary to my assumption, some Federalist newspapers did in fact assert a claim to objectivity.

That being the case, you could both be right - Democratic newspapers might continue business as usual, and there might arise Republican newspapers which - like Jefferson's Democratic Republicans - do not make the claim of objectivity. That is actually the situation we have now - only, talk radio is what constitutes the "Republican newspapers."