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The Fourth Estate is Dying

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Diane M. Grassi
 

The nationalization of U.S. healthcare, as important and personal a matter as it is to every American has now been hijacked, along with the public’s airwaves. If Obama’s intentions for the American people cannot withstand honest and unscripted dialog and discourse but rather necessitates an imposter shilling as a news network, then it will fail the American people.

 

But do remember if you decide to tune in on Wednesday, that, “The most effectual engines for pacifying a nation are the public papers…A despotic government always keeps a kind of standing army of news writers who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invent and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

   

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