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"Fear runs stronger in every American
newsroom — and I mean every American newsroom — now than any time that I'm aware
of in my career," he said. Politicians "have learned that the press indeed can
be intimidated," and corporate owners have placed profits over the public good,
he added. (Source: Baltimore Sun - Dan Rather, September 2005) Democracy depends
on an informed and engaged public and on a courageous press that holds those in
power accountable. Yet on television, where most people get their news,
propaganda and spin are reported as reality and facts are treated as just a
matter of opinion. Today, most television news are nothing but well-packaged
propaganda clips delivered to increasingly numbed television audiences
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