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Here's the killer graf, imo.

It's important to keep in mind, when reading this odd answer, that traditional news media used to have something of a lock on the dissemination of information, and allowed themselves to be convinced that they had a bizarre duty to filter even accurate information of interest to their audiences, and to do so in the service of reinforcing various social institutions and norms, even though their jobs, their Constitutionally-protected jobs, were to do just the opposite, to disseminate information and challenge long-cherished moral codes.

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More DeathWatch™ stuff.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003830471
‘Denver Post’ and ‘Pioneer Press’ To Run ‘Politico’ Coverage

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=87236
How’s 2008? Disaster For Newspapers, Magazines and Radio

http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/
Perilously funded papers hit the wall