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"I understand that breaking news is largely driven by bad news. That's a structural defect of a free press," said L. Paul Bremer, the American administrator in Iraq, at a House Armed Services Committee Hearing Thursday.

It is not a free press. It is a propaganda monopoly that is starting to crumble.

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Yes media monop succumbing to the internet which is a free market

but they will try to find a way to take control

probably taxes and political control of the bit packet net/routes (already in place)