I remain a minority of people who proactively ferret out information on the Internet, so if the main stream media wants to merge one brainless medium with another it doesn’t inconvenience me at a personal level. The thing that should alarm us about the trend in media consolidation is the impact on the 70% of minimally educated, politically ambivalent middle Americans who want the editorial page to tell them who to vote for, or who want the man on the TV to tell them it’s a great thing for their kid to join the army. It is the couch potatoes of America, not its political activists, who decide elections and determine the future direction of us all.
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