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In response to
"Newspaper and broadcast news were run in the public interest and neutral, "comments" aka letters to editor where curated -- nm"
by
zeitgeist
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I'm less willing to assign this too much responsibility honestly, because media has always been business, not public interest. It got better....
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....Later in the back half of the 20th Century than the first half, but the difference was less on how they were run and more on how people felt they had an interest and responsibility to digest it and be aware of issues.
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