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To: Mudboy Slim
What is really shocking is how the media, with a few brave exceptions, literally covers for the Clintons, even enthusiastically assassinating the characters of his critics, impugning their motives and smearing their reputations

Actually not surprising- 9 out of 10 were on his side from the start:

CyberAlert -- 05/07/1996 -- NQ CyberAlert
... recent Freedom Forum survey of Washington reporters and bureau chiefs revealed 89
percent voted for Clinton versus 7 percent for Bush in 1992. Do you think the ...

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... opinions skew their professional writing. Nuzzo pointed out that a 1995 Freedom
Forum survey showed 89 percent of the media voted for Bill Clinton while the ...

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... Why? They're usually wrong. 92% voted for Clinton. Libertarians, by contrast,
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249 posted on 11/20/2001 1:40:59 AM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
"Today, just six corporations have a forceful grip on America's mass media. We should consider how to break the hammerlock that huge firms currently maintain around the windpipe of the First Amendment. And we'd better hurry.

The trend lines of media ownership are steep and ominous in the United States. When "The Media Monopoly" first appeared on bookshelves in 1983, author Ben Bagdikian explains, "50 corporations dominated most of every mass medium." With each new edition, that number kept dropping -- to 29 media firms in 1987, 23 in 1990, 14 in 1992, and 10 in 1997.

Published this spring, the sixth edition of "The Media Monopoly" documents that just a half-dozen corporations are now supplying most of the nation's media fare. And Bagdikian, a longtime journalist, continues to sound the alarm. "It is the overwhelming collective power of these firms, with their corporate interlocks and unified cultural and political values, that raises troubling questions about the individual's role in the American democracy."

Yep...MUD

BTW...God Save the Power of the Internet!!

251 posted on 11/20/2001 1:53:36 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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