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Bigger Challenges

Media forced to report news to those who won’t believe it anyway... and those who already do

PUEBLO, Colo. — Welcome to election year, when each party’s candidates will be pilloried by partisans, but the consistent target of the most tiresome cliches will be the news media.

Yes, that mean, old news media that conservatives call the “liberal news media.” Yes, that mean, old news media that some liberals insist isn’t a “liberal news media,” but rather a part of the “conservative noise machine” owned by big corporations, rich local businessmen, and mega-bucks billionaires such as Rupert Murdoch.

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