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To answer your question: Mainstream news has had a structural bias since at least the 60s as Chomsky and Herman describe in their book "Manufacturing Consent".

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Yeah, while I have respect for Greenwald's work, I struggle with the notion that a news organisation with a billionaire as its backer can maintain a fully independent editorial policy.

Chomsky and Herman point to five distorting filters which I think are prevalent in most mainstream news organisations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...

Of course the news organization will be biased in favor of the financier and his interests. But those interests are presumably far narrower than the interests of a mainstream news organization that has to contend with a wide breadth of advertisers and political entities.

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