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From: LindyBill	10/28/2005 10:48:13 AM
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This article in "National Journal" sums it up well. nationaljournal.com OFF MESSAGE Get Happy By William Powers, National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Friday, Oct. 28, 2005 ...........The news business once operated as a kind of private club. Now it behaves more like a public utility in which every news consumer is a stockholder. If the stockholders (through their proxies, the media critics, bloggers, and other press-watchers) push for an investigation of a suspicious news story or journalist, they get it. The outlet under suspicion really has no choice but to obey. The real lesson of the Times scandal is not that the media are evil. It's that the Age of Media Arrogance is over. The news culture is under the public's thumb. It is more transparent, more answerable for its mistakes, and more likely than ever to clean up its act. Can anyone seriously argue that this is bad news? nationaljournal.com

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