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I GUESS I OFFICIALLY QUALIFY AS AN OLD FART NOW. I agree with much of Robert McChesney's diagnosis of the media's problems; I just lack faith in the prescription. I think that the "media politics" syndrome he describes has reached its advanced stages--too advanced, in my view, to be corrected or cured in the foreseeable future. The remaining hope, therefore, is to acknowledge the existence of this disorder and use that knowledge to offset or limit its most damaging effects.

Most of the phenomena McChesney describes, including media concentration, are actually ...

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