Bill Keller: Rupert Murdoch Has Made America More Cynical And Polarized

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.
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