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I always enjoy Rush L’s compilations that use the ‘word or phrase of the day’.

Years ago when I did not have cable, I watched the network world news. Some times, a local station would change the time and put the world news on the second half hour. That would give the me opportunity of watching the world news from 2 different networks.

I quickly noticed that they had basically the same new stories. Occasionally, the order was different, but the content was almost word-for-word. I marveled at how 2 or 3 different networks could condense the news from the whole world into nearly identical segments.

I also learned that, on slow news days, a poll commissioned by the network was a headliner. Curiously, the results of the polls almost always was in line with the political narrative.

I also noticed frequent lengthy ‘reports’ on a new drug that was just hitting the market. I realized those were most likely infomercials paid for by the Big Pharma but disguised as news.