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Spiffarino

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Thu Feb-21-08 11:30 PM
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16. "News today is not to inform, but entertain"

No, it's not just your take. I believe the majority firmly agrees with you.

Thom Hartmann speaks often about the way that news organizations changed after Reagan weakened some FCC regulations and deliberately quit enforcing others, rules that were further eroded in 1996 during Clinton's administration.

Before Reagan news and entertainment divisions were separated. After Reagan, news and entertainment divisions merged and both had to make money. Now Brittany Spears gets all the attention while illegal wiretaps by White House goons are treated like a page 10 story about a skateboarding squirrel.

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