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Once you get past the opening paragraphs, I think it gives something interesting to think about.

Great Lies of the American free press

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"The legacy of McCarthyism demonstrates that, despite popular myth, America does not truly have a "free press." While the Bill of Rights guarantees that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging freedom of the press," it is usually nongovernmental factors - fear of losing readers, viewers and/or advertising dollars - that actually control the decisions made by corporate-controlled news media. These influences can also be labeled the three "P’s": Popularity, Prejudice and Profit. And, to accommodate the three "P’s," corporate-controlled news media have persistently ignored two others: the People and the Public Interest."

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