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2016 Postmortem

Betty Karlson

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7. Yeah... that will be tough anyway, if millennials stop subscribing to MSM at the current rate

Reply to mhatrw (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 13, 2016, 06:22 PM

Jan 2016

MSM have become elite projects, and hence they are quickly becoming irrelevant unless they change their format. That means opening their columns to viewpoints not in line with 1 % interests.

And that will be difficult, seeing as their parent companies are hopelessly devoted to the investors/ shareholders/ hedgefunds.

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New Yorker: Bernie Sanders Is Gaining Ground on Hillary Clinton and It Matters [View all] mhatrw Jan 2016 OP

People are waking up to the real problems in this country and who, not what, is the cause! Dustlawyer Jan 2016 #1

Hillary's biggest financial backers and, by extension, Hill the Shill herself, are the cause. Still In Wisconsin Jan 2016 #8

The small trickle of media attention for Sanders is suddenly swelling to a cascade. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #2

The corporate media does not want to be rendered politically irrelevant. mhatrw Jan 2016 #3

This. sadly. kath Jan 2016 #6

Yeah... that will be tough anyway, if millennials stop subscribing to MSM at the current rate Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #7

And Hillary's no fly zones. ozone_man Jan 2016 #11

I'm confident that Obama's epic SOTU speech underscoring much of Bermie's platform 99th_Monkey Jan 2016 #4

I expect her negative campaigning to get worse in the next few weeks. beam me up scottie Jan 2016 #5

Negative campaigning doesn't work ozone_man Jan 2016 #12

I agree. beam me up scottie Jan 2016 #13

I expect a Dean Scream ambush! Helen Borg Jan 2016 #9

Even if they try, SusanCalvin Jan 2016 #10

That's what Datagate was. mhatrw Jan 2016 #14

This from the New Yorker? I thought Hillary was a New Yorker? sorechasm Jan 2016 #15