That's actually funny coming from the man who cooperated with the Bush administration to hold d/amning reports about what BushCo was up to until after the 2004 election.
Fox and USA Today, along with Reagan's eliminating the Fairness Doctrine and newspapers like the NYT and WAPO standing down instead of standing up to pressure to lay off criticizing Reagan and his administration share responsibility for the deat/h of America.
At a time when more news reporting should have been happening, corporate-media s/ashed budgets and closed bureaus all over the country and the world and gave Americans abbreviated news.
The polarization and cynicism of America couldn't have occurred had the Grey Lady and the rest of the fourth estate been doing its job. These institutions dropped the baton, and with it went the noble experiment. I don't know how they live with that, knowing their role in all this.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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