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As a result, consumers suffer, dividing those who follow infotainment/junk food news from others seeking real journalism major print and broadcast media don't provide.
No wonder famed comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919 - 1962) once explained why television is called a medium - because it's neither rare or well done. He'd be horrified by today's features, his time tame by comparison.
Among many others they include:
-- OJ Simpson's trial and acquittal;
-- the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan affair;
-- Joseph Lyle and Eric Galen Menendez conviction for killing their parents;
-- the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky oval office dalliance, resulting in his lying about sex impeachment and acquittal - not his crimes of war and against humanity, besides numerous anti-labor, racist, lawless, and other destructive domestic and foreign policies, exceeding the worst of Reagan and GHW Bush;
-- unjustly framing Dominique Strauss-Kahn, evidence showing his alleged victim got $100,000 to lie; why, of course, is key; it was to banish him twice over: as IMF head for a meaner, tougher Christine Lagarde and (perhaps) from France's 2012 presidential election as Nicolas Sarkozy's main opponent;
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