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The corporate press has been

NCD — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 23:06:38 +0000

In reply to P.S. Even made me think about

The corporate press and big corporate money have been funding and letting the Republicans lie on absolutely everything for 30+ years, so the GOP base is so used to lies Macedonian teens can do Comet Pizza bs on Facebook and make 6 figures, and the biggest liar of all Trump, can hijack the Party with outrageous fantastic beautiful lies. The GOP is not big tent, it's big lies.

The msm lives on the horse race, so the biggest big lie the media use to grab eyeballs is always 'both sides do it'.

I'll leave it right there - 5

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:13:07 +0000

In reply to P.S. Even made me think about

I'll leave it right there - 5 nails about nails it.

P.S. Even made me think about

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:44:05 +0000

In reply to Fabulous on so many levels

P.S. Even made me think about the Kaepernick thread. Everyone these days that wants to do something related to their talents is a "free agent", where, rightly or wrongly, if you impede the gigmaster's profits in some way, that rep can spread. Hennelly: Reaching out to people that I knew who knew David Remnick at the New Yorker, hoping for a reference or an introduction, I got the brush-off.

Fabulous on so many levels

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:31:45 +0000

In reply to Byline sidelined: How Citizens United weakened the Press

Fabulous on so many levels and so many issues. Maybe I think so because he encapsulates everything I have been thinking. Just lost a much longer comment to browser window confusion, maybe more later.

I would just say for now that just as his original headline serves as clickbait for a talk about many bigger inter-related problems, your emphasis on Citizen's United is just one piece of the puzzle, one nail in a shoe with 5 nails, probably the biggest is health insurance. (Because: health care is the economy, stupids. Surely now with gigwork serving most people's hopes and dreams, there will be no growth without it untied from employment.)

Yes, big money can grease the populist favorite and spread disinfo, but you yourself would argue that a 100 hackers might be able to do the same. There's no turning back from the effect of social media for the foreseeable future.

The other: big tent parties have no control anymore. So ironic that Spicer was trying to censor the truth that the RNC had no control and could be "trumped"

This guy really does know the way things are. And that is: right in the middle of a revolution no smaller than the Industrial Revolution.

Hoping for one that Wolraich finds time to read it.