The difference I think between previous times and now is the overall degeneracy and corruption of the media. In previous eras the media were much more closely linked to their communities and to the working class (the journalists weren't paid very well and were often themselves from working class families) -- now the media are detached from their communities and journo's have become junior members of the (upper) middle class and courtiers at the tables of the rich and powerful. The remarkably parallel cris de coeur from the 24 year old resigning from CTV news and 86 (?) year old George Soros in some despair about the state of the country that has given him so much in large part both focus on this issue. And here as we see from the Murdoch scandal in the UK big money and corruption prevail--perhaps more subtlely in N Am but more insidious for that. M
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