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I like Mary Bottari's articles. They are very inciteful and informative. Here in California, I notice the same media trends that Mary is discussing. Even on the so-called progressive channels, both radio and TV, there is less real news, and more of the pre-packaged, predigested and highly uninformative sludge. We are slowly and steadily being force-fed with an unhealthy diet of "information" filtered by the corporate elites. The most important topics that are critical for us to digest and thus be able to perceive what is going on are being omitted. The really good reporters who used to provide us with astute politial analysis are disappearing, and more time is given to commercials than ever. I no longer trust them for content or information, any more than the "lamestream media." I find that I get the real stuff from organizations like CMD.