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Pew Report Says Americans Are News GrazersPosted on Mar 1, 2010
Americans are picking and choosing from an information smorgasbord to get their news, according to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and a large majority are switching between different platforms, with the Internet playing a significant role in their news “grazing.” —KA
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By MarthaA, March 2, 2010 at 6:04 pm Link to this comment
May there be enough liberals and progressives in Congress to protect the internet from corporations totally taking it away from political use by the populace.
All the corporate spying on the populace gives one cause for concern:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/814.html
With all the conservatives treading the treason line in television media and on the internet; if corporations manage to get liberals and progressives political dialog shut down on the internet, democracy will be eradicated, as the internet is the last bastion of democracy..
http://www.alternet.org/story/145847/are_some_conservatives_treading_the_line_when_it_comes_to_treason
I guess we could resort to bull horns and use them for free political speech like in this video, think that would work:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/812.html
Report thisBy dzent1, March 1, 2010 at 9:26 pm Link to this comment
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I graze mostly progressive sites, eschewing the traditional corporate-profit-based media as much as possible. You might say that the last decade of Republican-Corporate rule has polarized me and now I filter everything I hear, read or see. I always ask myself who gains, and what.
Report thisBy Vic Anderson, March 1, 2010 at 6:31 pm Link to this comment
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Better US grazing the “news” than it grazing US or striking its target as it
Report thisotherwise has since ‘63!
By MarthaA, March 1, 2010 at 5:47 pm Link to this comment
Isn’t it wonderful.
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