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SHRED

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Thu Sep 21, 2017, 11:53 AM Sep 2017

Understanding the corporate media [View all]

I think this article does a good job of explaining our bullshit corporate media.
This isn't a "Hillary bashing" article OBTW. At least that's not how I read it.

HILLARY CLINTON DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WHY THE CORPORATE MEDIA IS SO BAD

HILLARY CLINTON HAS every right to be infuriated by the performance of the press during the 2016 election. In her new book “What Happened,” Clinton mainly indicts television news for abandoning coverage of any actual public policy issues in favor of its berserk obsession with her use of a private email server. Subsidiary malefactors include Matt Lauer, for asking her about almost nothing else at NBC’s September 2016 Commander-in-Chief Forum on national security, and the New York Times, for its spasmodic freakout when FBI Director James Comey declared he was re-opening the bureau’s investigation into her emails just before the election.

But here’s where Clinton and I part ways:

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/16/hillary-clinton-doesnt-understand-why-the-corporate-media-is-so-bad/
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