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" ... So, most Americans could find a newspaper or a TV station that played
things pretty straight. But that reality has changed over the past
several decades, as a concentration of media ownership has intersected
with a recognition on the American Right that propaganda translates very
effectively into power. Right-wingers like Rupert Murdoch and Rush
Limbaugh became the faces of modern media.
As the Right invested heavily in media (while the Left mostly ignored
media), the ideological spectrum of the nation shifted rightward.
“Centrist” journalists also tiptoed in that direction to avoid the
damaging career label of “liberal.” The overall impact was that the
content of the U.S. news media became more ideological and less honest.
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