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Bruce's avatar

Don Henley captured this zeitgeist in 1982 with "Dirty Laundry"; this started a long time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgJgTL5JmE

When news switched from a public service the networks provided as a condition of their broadcast license to just another profit center, journalism started the fatal shift from fact reporting to 'telling stories'.

Reagan dismantling the Fairness Doctrine hastened the descent.

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Renie's avatar

WOW you perfectly described the evolution of news to entertainment. It also began the decline of local printed news as well as investigative journalists. trump being a cash cow for the media is a really big issue on how they cover him. We need to introduce into schools critical thinking skills so future Americans can see past this nonsense cuz most of Americans today just mindlessly go along with group thinking.

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