Norman Solomon on the death throes of Press Freedom in the US and UK

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"In motion now, on both sides of the Atlantic, are top-down efforts to quash real journalism when and how it matters most. In the two English-speaking countries that have done the most preaching to the world about “Western values” like freedom of the press, the governments led by U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are overseeing assaults on real journalism."

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/05/real-journalism-v-big-brother/

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1. MSM is a sick puppy, easy to kick around, now.

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2. I would say well heeled, nicely groomed lapdogs

but any mixed metaphor in a storm