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Yeah but there was honest competition among newspapers in those days. There wasn't a total monopoly, or corporate consensus, driving so much of the news cycle. I would argue that's the unique feature of today. We've ordained certain news organizations to be The Authority and they all seem to cover the news in exactly the same way. There's no contrarianism. Just the illusion of choice and variety.

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The 'mainstream' media for lack of a better term has built a nicely sized moat around themselves. Remember, if someone has to run ad campaigns about how 'honest' or 'truthful' journalists they are - run away.

I dunno, MSNBC and FOX news seem to come from very different viewpoints.

fair point.

Now let's play this game with MSNBC, Reuters, AP, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, etc.

Assigning vector values to each of these sources, is it your contention that they too sum to zero?

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