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Guess Who Pays for Mainstream Media Political News?

Posted by Matt Stoller, Open Left at 5:03 AM on August 14, 2008.


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Matt Stoller is a political activist/blogger in DC, and was an editor at MyDD from November 2005 until June 2007. He also consults for the Sunlight Foundation, FreePress.net, and Working Assets as well as proactively networking other progressive bloggers/internet activists and progressive professionals.


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Posted by: weathered on Aug 14, 2008 6:41 AM   
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NPR got hijacked - now they taking their Lies and orders from Zionist/Neocon criminals.

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Media = Advertising Money
Posted by: FoonTheElder on Aug 14, 2008 12:35 PM   
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What else is new. Media is not there to entertain or inform. They are there to sell advertising. Advertising dollars mostly come from big corporations. If you say things that big corporations don't like, they don't give you money for advertising. Now that NPR is just another corporate sponsored network, the same goes for them.

How much money does the average person waste paying for the over-advertising of the products they buy. Contrary to what media tells you, the advertising is not free to the viewer or listener.

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